Mark Giordano – Class 1 – Comfort in Sickness – Recovery in the Kingdom

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The theme for brother Marx
talks, this weekend is the God

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of All Comfort.
First class is entitled comfort

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in sickness recovery in the
Kingdom, brother, Mark?

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Well, good afternoon love,
Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

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First, let me say how delightful
it is for sister Jean.

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And I to be here this weekend
among you, we’ve already

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rekindled some old relationships
that have had faded somewhat

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into the past and when we have
the opportunity to come so far

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away and visit christadelphians,
who are all waiting in these

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desperate times for the second
coming of Christ.

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Together, the fellowship, the
affinities that we have the

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feeling of having known, someone
all their life.

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When you’ve met them just a few
minutes, those things are the

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richest part of life for us.
So we let me assure you.

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We are very, very glad to be
here on a personal level, but

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before we get into our, into the
substance of our subject today,

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first things first, you will see
a picture up here of my That’s

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what I mean by first things
first.

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You’re a grandparent you know
exactly what I mean the

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preeminence they take in your
affections is just over the top,

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isn’t it?
This is Silas and I’m going to

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start on a lighter note because
we’re going to get into some

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very sobering and serious
things.

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And I just think that this is
probably the best way to start

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this particular subject because
it’s a caricature.

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What we experience in reality
when we grow up and we get

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blindsided by things, we never
thought would enter our lives

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and they become severe trials.
For little children, they have

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all the same feelings but
there’s really nothing wrong.

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So this say Silas and I had
taken a walk down to the dock.

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It was a perfect day.
Silas was on vacation, I had the

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day off, it was grandfather and
Grandson together.

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It’s a sunny day, we’re taking a
walk and I don’t know.

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For some reason, the world as
Silas knew it in that moment

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came to an end.
And so he didn’t want to finish

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the walk.
We just got a few houses down

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and he stopped in this yard and
he gets this look and he looks

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at me like freezes in his tracks
and you could see his little

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fist is clenched.
And you can see the Deep anxiety

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that is all across his face.
Things just weren’t going right

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for Silas that day and or in
that moment, especially and I

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had no idea why there was no
reason for him to feel bad.

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So I, we never did figure it out
but he had all the feelings of

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that are concomitant with total
disaster, and he was in a very

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high state of dungeon.
So that’s the innocence of

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Youth, the way little children
respond to the smallest of

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things and when I was a little
boy, this is me when I was about

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eight years old, I really wasn’t
asking.

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Why me?
Life was pretty good for me,

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this is the Waterfront.
Nice to walk down there and bare

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feet and love to feel the warm
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Walk under my, my feet and fish
for gudgeons off the piers and

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crab.
And I had a Relatively perfect

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life, but I didn’t know when I
was this age, what would happen

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to me when I got older?
I didn’t know.

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So the question had not come up
yet but it does for a lot of

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people, some people at this age
or earlier they’ve already begun

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to say Why me, why did this
happen to me?

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It’s a very serious question.
When it’s, it’s accompanied by

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something that you never
expected that appears in your

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contacts to be completely
intolerable.

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But there’s a deeper question
still, and that is why when

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everything goes wrong when we
suffer we can’t explain it.

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But it seems like God’s justice
has been left out of our

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circumstances.
When you see other people who

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seem to be the beneficiaries of
the love of God or if they don’t

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know God, their beneficiaries of
the goodness of human life and

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for you all that cave.
And somehow.

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So it’s that question, you asked
when all seems to be lost and

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that is at the heart of what we
are going to consider all

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weekend.
As we look at three specific

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examples and a fourth of people
whose lives took a turn that

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they never expected and didn’t
seem to have any way out but

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bad.
So that’s the question, why?

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And interestingly enough, as you
know, those of you who have read

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your Bible and applied yourself
to what you were reading, you

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know, that the Bible addresses,
the question of why in advance

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there isn’t any question.
I believe that we can have that

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hasn’t been somehow or another
addressed.

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Even the one, is that, that
queries, how come?

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We don’t understand this
particular condition in the

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world.
It has Explanation.

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It doesn’t make sense even
though I know the truth.

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Now there’s there are questions
reserved for the day and isn’t

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the day the answer to those
questions that reservation we

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know that that one day even
though we can’t understand

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what’s happening.
Now there are if not to us

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personally to other people or in
the world certain conditions, we

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know that those answers will be
addressed and fully.

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He supplied in the Kingdom.
So the kingdom is the answer to

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all the questions that aren’t
answered right now.

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So is that not an answer to
those questions?

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Everything has been dealt with
by God’s word, but this

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particular verse in, Paul’s
second letter to the Corinthians

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where he says he Comforts Us in
all our affliction.

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So that we may be able to
comfort those who are in any

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kind of Affliction.
So there’s the the answer to the

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question.
Why?

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Why did this happen to me?
Whether you were young or old,

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whether you’re still in it, or
not, whether it’s somebody you

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love or yourself or your
children, your helpless children

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or your helpless, elderly
parents, or those around you?

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Whatever it is if there’s
Affliction, the answer to the

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question.
Why is so that we who have the

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understanding of God’s mind his
purpose, our reason, for being

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The consequences of mortality
and the consequences of the law

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Spirit of Life, operating in our
lives.

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So that we may be able to
comfort those who are any in any

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kind of Affliction through the
Comfort.

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We ourselves receive from God.
That’s the answer to the

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question.
Why or why me?

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So just a little background on
what we will be addressing in

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this series.
It was six years in the making

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in some respects, much longer
than that in other respects.

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For example, when I said of me
as a child, I didn’t really know

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when life was good as a child.
What would happen to me when I

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got older, when I was a newlywed
and working very hard physically

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to sustain my marriage and my
firstborn child?

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I got a really severe back
injury and that back injury was

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to create pain in my life for
the next 33 years.

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It’s still residual in me, not
quite as bad as it has been on

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occasion.
It’s up and down, but I’ve spent

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33 years in, chronic pain and
it’s just my pain.

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I don’t think it’s as bad as
maybe some other people’s pain

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in the world has been bad enough
to feel like it ruined a good

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portion of my life, that one
enough out of the last 30 years.

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Ears, I had chronic headaches
and those headaches were so

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chronic.
And so pervasive, in my life, as

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to basically nullify and ruin 10
years of the last Thirty, thirty

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percent of that, time was ruined
with that X.

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And in all that, you know, II
might have asked why me, but for

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the fact that I was raised by
two parents who told me about

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the Kingdom from the time, I was
dandled on their knees.

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And so, I had a very clear
understanding that, this, the

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things that we suffer from, Even
though they affect us, deeply on

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a personal level level are not
really about us.

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The World At Large is, is very
old and full of suffering,

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groaning and travel together.
Even until now, and that

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condition is the larger question
that the mind of God addressed

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from the foundation of the
world, in the hope that he said

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before men.
But the in the more local sense

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to the subject, the series was
In the making because things

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came into our conditions, came
into the lives of, in

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particular, three of the
sisters, in our khaleja, which

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were so severe, and we got so
deeply involved with that

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vicariously.
We went into their trouble and

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they were three very distinct
areas of suffering.

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That on one hand, on the
arranging board.

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We had to manage from that level
as an elder in the Ecclesia had

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to manage from that.
At level being the husband of my

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wife, who was a very nurturing
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I had contact with the suffering
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I was also very close to all
three of them in different ways,

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very different ways.
And so in all of that, when you

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share the tears, you You you
vicariously suffer from the

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pain, you ask all the questions
that suffering.

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People ask you learn that the
feeling most people have in such

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severe conditions is one of
isolation from the rest of the

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world where although in the
abstract they know their people

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are suffering like they are but
their suffering is.

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They are isolated in their own
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they feel alone and these are
all very real feelings.

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We all know people who Going
through them.

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I think some of you here have
conditions in your lives that

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you are suffering from where you
feel like you are suffering in

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silence alone where nobody
really understands.

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And in most cases how does
anyone understand what everyone

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else around them doesn’t see how
could, how could anyone

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understand how I felt for the
last 33 years?

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How could I understand how you
felt when you go on the web gone

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through your trials?
So in that, the Wonder the

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Majesty, the royalty.
The Depth and richness of the

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Deliverance of God’s plan for
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Comes into such sharp focus, in
contrast to the Affliction that

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we bear.
That it takes its full.

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Meaning almost only as a
contrasting promise to what we

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are forced to endure in the
mortality and Frailty of our

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lives.
And so it was obvious to me, and

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these are the various subjects,
that will be be speaking about

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between now and tomorrow
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That when you are experiencing
sickness of the kind, that is

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really, really bad.
The recovery of the kingdom is

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the most marvelous thing to
dwell in.

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It’s a place where you can go
and stand on such wonderfully,

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Holy Ground, it doesn’t take
care of the problem, but it

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certainly is a way of managing
the problem.

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And when there is Extreme loss
loss of a loved one in from a

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death, an untimely death.
The retrieval of that

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individual, that that loved one
that child, as it is, in this

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case, in the Kingdom becomes all
the more real, and you’ll notice

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as we go through the scriptures
that are relevant to each of

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these different kinds of
suffering, that we’ll be looking

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at that, these scriptures on one
hand or something.

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You might have read in the
readings, they might have.

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Something to you at one point in
a talk or when you had a some

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kind of realization somewhere
driving down the road or in the

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middle of a prayer.
But when you are in the depths

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of of an extreme situation in
its particulars and then you

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look at the same verse again,
the verse comes to life.

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And it seems to somehow speak in
a way it never did before you

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see things, you see.
God was there all the while

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understanding what you would go
through and addressing it in in

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the in the most intimate and and
loving and kind and fatherly

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manner.
So that only a living God, only

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his Living Word could Supply.
What is necessary to reach into

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your heart and address.
The things that your heart needs

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to understand only God’s word
and God’s love him.

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Sprung himself can do this for
us where there’s abuse There’s

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the idea of God’s recompense the
day of judgment is not only

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there to decipher between those
who followed Christ, and those

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who didn’t, it’s there on a much
larger level for God to deal

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with Satan.
He’s going to bind him but he’s

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gonna bind him after he judges
and good part.

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When on Christ begins his
judgments in the world and no

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judgments will result in a
slaying of the Lord being from

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strewn from one end of the Earth
to the other.

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So, severe with his judgments
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Goodness and severity of God is
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in a way that it has never been
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And when there’s a fence will be
speaking about offenses and

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judgments.
And Grudges and criticisms and

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people who should love you and
you should love being more like

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enemies than they are like
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But the reconciliation that is
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When we see breaches of all
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to us, sometimes it make no
sense, whatever there are

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breaches that we experience is a
community that in some respects

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are irrational and another
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truth, resolving.
All these Kinds of things.

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Now seems to be sometimes
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But we know this, the
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God will put everything in its
order and bring peace and

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happiness, and joy in that
reconciliation, that exceeds

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even the joy of understanding
the Forgiveness that comes to us

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from the crucifixion of Jesus
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He took all our iniquities upon
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very, very high state of Joy,
that’s that, but when he comes

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back and reconciles the whole
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The sick are healed and all
these little children, these

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helpless little children are
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When that happens, it’ll be
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we’ve never seen before.
And then the restoration of the

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Kingdom will deal with all
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So, Working with these three
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time.
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That there was a premise that
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first doing this for a bible
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Okay, so I have an opportunity
to share some ideas about our

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faith with brothers and sisters
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What will I talk about this time
and having gone through this, I

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thought, well, you know, I would
prefer to talk about something.

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I know a lot about and what I
knew a lot about at that moment,

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was the suffering of these three
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So I realized that they were
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distinct forms of suffering.
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was able to recognize that.
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was not just isolated to them.
There are way too many people in

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this world that suffer from the
same thing and that gave me the

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premise for creating this
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And that time is that there must
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dark days of this world right
now who are suffering in silence

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or suffering in open in the open
in such a way that is as extreme

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or more extreme because of the
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Late hour of this world’s time
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history.
Although we know that human

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suffering has been consistent
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premise is that, if what Paul
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is meant for the comfort of
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If I could, could describe their
suffering to you and then put

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that suffering in the
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over us and his Intimacy in our
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redemption in the future that
those three sisters could a

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great assignment of meaning
could be made to their

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suffering.
So I went and asked him.

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I said, would you mind if I
speak about what you’ve gone

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through two people made, they
each gave me their permission in

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their own way.
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anonymous because the intensity
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But that is the basis of this
and you’ll see what I mean when

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you take a close, look at
something, which not only is

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just particular to that purpose,
but also epitomizes an area of

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human suffering that needs to be
addressed by our faith, in the

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details of God’s purpose, then
they these stories take on a

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vivid character.
That I don’t think happens when

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we just speak about these things
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So this is our subject and that
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The subject is confirmed.
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We don’t live in it yet, but
that is the environment of the

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comfort of God in Paradise,
which he has promised for the

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future.
It’s a big subject.

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If you look at the different
kinds of word that words, that

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are derived from the roof
comfort, you have comfortable.

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That means, one thing you have
comforting.

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That’s something else.
It’s all in the context.

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Sufferings you have the
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It was promised with the Holy
Advent of the Holy Spirit and

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the change in roles that Jesus
made from suffering savior to a

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righteous Everlasting high
priest, you have discomfort and

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uncomfortable on the negative
side of the word Comfort, but

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all using the same, the same
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Like to raise a question with
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Two kinds of ways you can Define
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As I Define them here, I’ve got
both definitions up in front of

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you.
See if you can in your mind,

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find out what the distinction
between the differentiation is

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between the two, the natural
meaning, that is from a

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dictionary, is our up, Comfort
is ease of grief.

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Improvement of move through in a
bad mood, your comforted your

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mood gets better, restoration of
well-being.

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You, you were ill at ease or ill
and comfort came along and your,

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your well-being was restored.
That’s the dictionary

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definition.
The concordance definition is

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interesting because there’s a
differentiation, which may not

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be obvious at first.
But when we talk about it, you

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will, you will see that.
It’s a necessary distinction,

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and one that come can only be
addressed in the context of

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Faith.
The spiritual meaning is to

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invite near As if in prayer you
invite God to be near to you or

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if in prayer he invites you to
be near to him.

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An appeal for consolation.
Or to entry exhortation to pray.

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You see the difference?
Point it out to you.

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Spiritual comfort is not
immediate relief in the

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definition, in each case, what
was the source of the discomfort

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is addressed, and comfort is the
result.

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But the comfort in the
concordance comes to comes from

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a direct nearness with God.
An intimate understanding that

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exists between you and God in
your faith, where something in

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his word has reached into your
discomfort and addresses it but

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does not relieve it.
So you cannot say that spiritual

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comfort is immediate relief.
It isn’t Any more than it was

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the immediate relief of Christ.
When he was facing his

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crucifixion, he was comforted,
but didn’t take the cross away,

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did he?
If you look at the stories of

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Affliction and comfort in the
Bible, immediate relief is not

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something that is, Necessarily
found in fact frequently not

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found in the sufferings instead.
Spiritual comfort is strength.

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Strength.
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The country is something that
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Our our disposition while we are
suffering is a very important

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principle to understand as we as
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Paul, the theme came from Paul’s
second letter to the Corinthians

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in the first chapter.
In the first few verses there.

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He says this after he made them
sorrowful from his first letter

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and he did that by saying well
concerning your schisms got to

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do with this concerning the
immoral man.

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You have to do this concerning
our traditions and and head

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coverings you have to do this
and concerning the breaking of

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bread.
Well, I hear that you’re doing

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this but but Let’s look at it
this way and one thing point

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after another, he made them
sorrowful and he knew that he

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was and and he said, I didn’t
want to make you uncomfortable,

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but he knew that the discomfort
would bring joy and comfort in

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the realizations and the
understanding that he was going

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to provide and his descriptions
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And so the second letter is
starts with this this

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overwhelming appeal to comfort.
We’re having made them sorrowful

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now.
He’s To see if he can make their

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comfort, his comfort to them.
Clear, though, he says blessed

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be the God and father of our
Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
The father of Mercies.

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And the God of all comfort.
And if you read that for what it

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says, it says that all comfort
has to address all affliction.

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Doesn’t it if he’s a God of All
Comfort, he has to that.

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Comfort has to handle anything,
whatever comes up.

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It could be mental, could be
physical, could be imposed on,

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you could be in, you could
impose it, on yourself, whatever

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it is, could be just
circumstances.

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Something like I said, that
blindsides you and you never

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thought that would be your life.
And in a moment, your whole life

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changes, if he’s the God of All
Comfort, it has to address all

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afflictions.
He goes on to say, who comforts

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Us in all our affliction, So
that we may be able to comfort

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those who are in any Affliction
that again is the reason for it

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with the comfort with which we
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If there’s no Comfort coming
from God, then there’s no real

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Comfort coming in Affliction
except perhaps for the kind that

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mitigates, you know, are
suffering from the human touch

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or medicine and or, you know, a
little, a little brief respite

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from from horrible, trial
whatever.

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But if it’s comfort that Comes
from God, it is pervasive.

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It is able to handle every
aspect of the suffering for as

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we share abundantly in Christ’s
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So through Christ we share
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If we are afflicted, it is for
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So, Paul’s now thinking of his
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to him, he gone to a city, he’d
go to a synagogue, they beat him

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up or he may be Shipwrecked to
be in standing water out in the

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ocean for a day and a night and
all these things were happening

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to be bu T be bitten by snakes
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So he’s saying, well, if we’re
Afflicted, it’s for your comfort

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and salvation.
So what we’re going to talk

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about this this weekend, how
that works if that’s true, if

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it’s by Affliction that someone
offers Comfort to you, What

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exactly happens in that
exchange, it doesn’t happen the

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same, he’s just reminding them
because he would go on to

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explain that in the whole depth
of his letter.

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He says, if we are afflicted as
for your comfort and salvation,

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if we are comforted is for your
comfort zone, whether it not it,

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came from Affliction, or for
Comfort, he’s saying, whatever

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it comes to you from us, it’s
for your comfort.

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In other words, I love you.
I could say this to you today.

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This is why I’m speaking about
this subject because I love you

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and I know you’re suffering.
And if you’re not suffering

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personally, you will suffer.
And if you haven’t suffered yet,

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you know somebody who’s
suffering, or you’ve been around

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somebody who’s Suffering The
Suffering, this is enough

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suffering in this world for us,
all to be intimately, connected

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to it.
And what Paul is trying to get

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across the Corinthian.
Ecclesia is I made.

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I know I made you sorry.
But we have a mission of

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righteousness, we have a mission
of reconciliation, and it’s

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different from, from this
mission of death, that the law

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put on us, all made us miserable
in the understanding of our

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sins.
This mission is one of

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righteousness and joy and peace
and so when I come however I

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come to you, I come to you with
a tremendous amount of personal

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love for you, whatever it was.
If it’s from my comforter from

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my Affliction, it’s meant for
your comfort and that that is

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the basis of this series.
It is mint.

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For your comfort and it will
work in that regard.

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Once we start sharing the
particulars of the afflictions

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and the way Faith Works in their
context, So he says when which

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you it is for your comfort,
which you experience when you

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patiently endure, the same
sufferings that we suffer.

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I hope for you is unshakable.
We know that as you share in our

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sufferings you will also share
and comfort.

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So there is this interesting
statement of context if you look

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at his message and you take
everything out except his his

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use of the word comfort.
You can see this is his point

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whatever he says.
In the second letter.

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Is meant to describe the
fullness of what he speaking

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about.
When he speaks about spiritual

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comfort and it’s in the context
of Affliction see how many times

434
00:28:26,100 –> 00:28:28,200
he speaks.
He uses the word sufferings and

435
00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:34,700
affliction because the two are
inexorably joined we have the

436
00:28:34,708 –> 00:28:38,600
Affliction and the comfort is an
essential part of managing that

437
00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:42,800
Affliction so that’s what we’re
going to look at how these three

438
00:28:42,800 –> 00:28:47,800
sisters manage their affliction.
Don’t like this one point before

439
00:28:47,800 –> 00:28:51,500
we start looking at their their
particular circumstances, the

440
00:28:51,500 –> 00:28:56,400
time to respond to Affliction is
before it occurs.

441
00:28:57,100 –> 00:29:00,300
If you’re young and you’re kind
of going, I know.

442
00:29:00,300 –> 00:29:03,600
Yeah, well, okay, still abstract
you have really been through it

443
00:29:03,600 –> 00:29:08,100
yet maybe you have, I don’t know
but you will As a matter of

444
00:29:08,108 –> 00:29:11,100
fact, that’s what the truth is
for, because the big question

445
00:29:11,100 –> 00:29:13,200
you should always ask yourself
when you think, should I be, if

446
00:29:13,200 –> 00:29:15,400
you’re not, baptized, you are,
then, you know what I’m saying,

447
00:29:15,400 –> 00:29:17,400
but you’ve already answered this
question.

448
00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:22,100
But if you’re not, the big
question is, well, will the job

449
00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:24,400
I get?
Will this person?

450
00:29:24,400 –> 00:29:27,000
I marry.
That is one of my, the love of

451
00:29:27,000 –> 00:29:31,400
my life will satisfying.
All my greatest interest in life

452
00:29:32,500 –> 00:29:35,100
will be coming.
Who I’m meant to be in this

453
00:29:35,100 –> 00:29:37,300
world with my talents and skills
and mine.

454
00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:40,900
Actual abilities.
Well, that here’s the question.

455
00:29:41,700 –> 00:29:43,700
Well, that deliver me in the day
of trouble.

456
00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:48,800
When the day my day of Calamity
comes will any of those things

457
00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:52,600
deliver me?
Is what you want a secure in

458
00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:57,000
your youth.
Is what will deliver you in the

459
00:29:57,000 –> 00:30:00,900
day of your Calamity and that’s
because there will be a day of

460
00:30:00,900 –> 00:30:05,300
Calamity for every one of us.
And if it isn’t somewhere in the

461
00:30:05,300 –> 00:30:09,200
middle of Life interrupting
Life, As We Knew It, it will be

462
00:30:09,200 –> 00:30:12,800
at the end of life.
When a Calamity, the Calamity of

463
00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:16,100
our age.
Weakens us to the point where we

464
00:30:16,100 –> 00:30:20,100
die in pain, I didn’t know this.
Until I was with my mother and

465
00:30:20,100 –> 00:30:23,300
last few days of her life, she
she lived in our home and so we

466
00:30:23,300 –> 00:30:26,500
were with her.
Constantly in her dying days.

467
00:30:27,100 –> 00:30:29,000
I didn’t know how painful it was
to die.

468
00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:33,400
It’s not always painful.
My father died suddenly so he

469
00:30:33,400 –> 00:30:36,600
didn’t experience that level of
pain but if you died a slow way,

470
00:30:37,200 –> 00:30:40,600
is very painful.
So what had my mother done for

471
00:30:40,600 –> 00:30:44,900
example to deal with her
suffering before it occur to

472
00:30:44,900 –> 00:30:48,700
deal with the Calamity of her
age, she was 95 when she died

473
00:30:49,100 –> 00:30:50,800
very weak and very
uncomfortable.

474
00:30:51,700 –> 00:30:55,100
What am I father?
Done to deal with his Calamity

475
00:30:55,100 –> 00:30:58,600
before it occurred.
If you’re young, if you’re in

476
00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:03,500
your middle years or even if
you’re getting on advanced in

477
00:31:03,500 –> 00:31:10,400
your years, the thing that deals
with with trouble before it

478
00:31:10,400 –> 00:31:14,200
occurs is what God’s word puts
into our hearts.

479
00:31:15,100 –> 00:31:17,700
That provides the strength in
time of need.

480
00:31:19,600 –> 00:31:22,600
This is why the psalmist said in
the multitude of my thoughts

481
00:31:22,600 –> 00:31:26,000
Within Me by Comforts Delight.
My soul.

482
00:31:26,500 –> 00:31:28,400
Those Comforts come from
thoughts.

483
00:31:29,300 –> 00:31:31,600
And unless you lose your mind,
those thoughts will be present

484
00:31:31,600 –> 00:31:34,200
with you, in whatever state that
you find yourself in plenty or

485
00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:38,900
in want in happy, the happiness
of health or in the misery of

486
00:31:39,500 –> 00:31:44,300
tribulation.
And then he also said, this is

487
00:31:44,300 –> 00:31:47,000
my comfort in my Affliction, for
Thy word.

488
00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:48,900
Hath quickened me.
How does that?

489
00:31:48,900 –> 00:31:52,400
How can that word come in?
If it hasn’t been already put

490
00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:55,100
there.
So some people are able to

491
00:31:55,100 –> 00:31:59,300
manage the the input during
their suffering, but the best

492
00:31:59,300 –> 00:32:03,400
time to plant, all those seeds
of seeds of strength and

493
00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:08,600
endurance and hope in your mind
is before the suffering occurs.

494
00:32:09,900 –> 00:32:14,600
So we’re going to turn to this,
the focus of this part of our

495
00:32:14,600 –> 00:32:18,200
series sickness.
And for that, we’re going to

496
00:32:18,200 –> 00:32:23,700
look at the amazing part.
Of sister Dawn, you Zack?

497
00:32:25,900 –> 00:32:28,400
She found the truth on her
computer.

498
00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:33,300
She was always puzzled why
religion made no no sense.

499
00:32:33,300 –> 00:32:36,700
As most people are when they
when they are driven to the

500
00:32:36,700 –> 00:32:40,500
truth.
And the gratification that she

501
00:32:40,500 –> 00:32:44,800
experienced in understanding,
the truth was just unlike almost

502
00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:48,600
anything we had ever seen.
And I’ve seen it from time to

503
00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:53,700
time.
There’s an unspeakable emotion.

504
00:32:56,900 –> 00:33:00,600
That overwhelms a person when
they realized they were blind,

505
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:05,600
just with their eyes, but to
the, to the future of the world,

506
00:33:05,900 –> 00:33:09,000
to the sufferings of humanity,
were totally blind until their

507
00:33:09,000 –> 00:33:13,000
eyes were opened.
And they could see I’ve never

508
00:33:13,000 –> 00:33:15,000
been blind.
I don’t know what it’s like to

509
00:33:15,000 –> 00:33:19,100
have my eyes open physically.
But I know what it’s like to see

510
00:33:19,100 –> 00:33:24,700
the future. and that gives me a
very special feeling inside to

511
00:33:24,700 –> 00:33:27,200
this is his sister Dawn, you
second, I have to tell you a

512
00:33:27,200 –> 00:33:30,400
little bit about how this, this
next series of pictures,

513
00:33:31,500 –> 00:33:34,300
Occurred.
I was, I wanted to talk about

514
00:33:34,300 –> 00:33:37,000
Dawn, I got her permission and I
called her up and I said, Don,

515
00:33:37,900 –> 00:33:39,500
can I come take a picture of
you?

516
00:33:39,500 –> 00:33:43,300
I don’t think it would be right
for me to tell your story

517
00:33:44,400 –> 00:33:47,000
without people seeing you.
I mean, I have a slides it’s

518
00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:48,500
going to be in the middle of a
presentation.

519
00:33:48,600 –> 00:33:51,100
I’d like to take a picture.
So she said, sure my life is an

520
00:33:51,100 –> 00:33:54,000
open book on take a picture and
you can show it in public.

521
00:33:54,000 –> 00:33:56,100
It’s all right.
So she dressed herself nicely

522
00:33:56,100 –> 00:33:59,800
that day and we went to see her.
She lived across the Chesapeake

523
00:33:59,800 –> 00:34:02,500
Bay on Eastern Shore.
A couple hours from where we

524
00:34:02,500 –> 00:34:07,100
live.
And when we went there, And she

525
00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:09,699
started to tell her story
because I was also going to

526
00:34:09,707 –> 00:34:13,400
record her story so that I could
get certain parts of it.

527
00:34:13,400 –> 00:34:19,000
I noticed that she I had my
camera hanging on my my front of

528
00:34:19,000 –> 00:34:22,600
me here and I noticed that her
Expressions were following her

529
00:34:22,600 –> 00:34:25,300
story and this was completely
unplanned.

530
00:34:25,300 –> 00:34:30,199
This kind of thing, I don’t
think you can plan but I started

531
00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:33,600
just taking pictures of her.
She told her story and what you

532
00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:36,800
will see in this are the
Expressions that are not Our

533
00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:41,900
captured in her, in her face and
her countenance, that correspond

534
00:34:41,900 –> 00:34:45,300
to what she’s saying in her
testimony and it all the more

535
00:34:45,300 –> 00:34:47,900
meaningful.
If the series is, will not only

536
00:34:47,900 –> 00:34:51,500
enable you to know Sister Dawn,
but it will give you a better

537
00:34:51,500 –> 00:34:54,600
look at the kind of feelings on
that.

538
00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:58,800
Come through Expressions, that
lay inside a person’s heart.

539
00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:05,100
So, this section is about
sickness and injury and pain.

540
00:35:08,600 –> 00:35:10,600
It’s a testimony.
Her personal testimony.

541
00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:15,300
What she went through when she
was actually sustained in.

542
00:35:15,300 –> 00:35:18,500
Unbelievable anguish and you’ll
see what I mean by that.

543
00:35:19,200 –> 00:35:23,300
This is Sister Dawn as she was
gathering, her thoughts to tell

544
00:35:23,300 –> 00:35:27,700
me her her story, but I’m going
to, I’m going to go down a

545
00:35:27,707 –> 00:35:30,400
bulleted list of what happened
to her and her life so that you

546
00:35:30,400 –> 00:35:34,800
can see how very real, this idea
of unbearable.

547
00:35:35,600 –> 00:35:38,500
Pain was for her.
Her mother hated her from the

548
00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:41,200
womb.
She said her birth.

549
00:35:41,200 –> 00:35:43,400
She told her your birth ruined
my life.

550
00:35:44,700 –> 00:35:47,800
When she was to her mother tried
to drown her, she left her.

551
00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:50,300
And she took her out pushed her,
under the water, and walked back

552
00:35:50,300 –> 00:35:52,800
up on the shore, and left her
head out there in her aunt, saw

553
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:55,600
her bobbing in the water.
She was gasping for her breath

554
00:35:55,600 –> 00:35:58,700
and mother taken a walk.
And she went and was saved by

555
00:35:58,700 –> 00:36:04,500
her aunt at the age of six.
We’re leaving Uncle began to

556
00:36:04,500 –> 00:36:08,800
exploit her.
When she was 13.

557
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,900
She was abused.
By a taxi driver.

558
00:36:18,700 –> 00:36:21,400
She was on the street and
pregnant at 17.

559
00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:24,700
She had the child.
She never knew the child, she

560
00:36:24,700 –> 00:36:28,500
lost it, and it, and that memory
of a lost child.

561
00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:33,200
Stay with her until we knew her
all the way through her whole

562
00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:35,600
life.
She married a man.

563
00:36:35,600 –> 00:36:39,700
Who tried to beat her second
child to death in her womb?

564
00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:43,500
He was an abuser over the next
decade.

565
00:36:43,500 –> 00:36:46,600
He broke 12 Bones in her body.
She said she kept having to go

566
00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:49,000
to the hospital until one time
in the latter.

567
00:36:49,000 –> 00:36:51,400
Part of this whole horrible
decade.

568
00:36:52,700 –> 00:36:55,600
They looked at her and she’s
always lying about why she had

569
00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:57,300
these injuries.
She said she would fall and so

570
00:36:57,300 –> 00:37:00,300
on is basically he was beating
on her and they looked at her

571
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:02,800
and they said this didn’t happen
for the reason you’re telling us

572
00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:06,300
to.
And so they had sort of a little

573
00:37:06,300 –> 00:37:11,000
wake up moment in all of that,
abuse at 42, she left him.

574
00:37:11,500 –> 00:37:15,200
Found her mother again but she
said when she went in to see her

575
00:37:15,200 –> 00:37:18,000
mother, she beat her to the
ground and she said, I could

576
00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:22,400
have fought her but she said I
couldn’t fight my mother and so

577
00:37:22,400 –> 00:37:24,200
she just let her beat her to the
ground.

578
00:37:25,600 –> 00:37:29,400
She met a powerful, man, George
who became her protector?

579
00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:35,100
That’s George.
Nobody can mess with George.

580
00:37:37,800 –> 00:37:41,600
George was beaten by his mother
and sister during his early

581
00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:44,300
childhood.
He left home at the age of six.

582
00:37:44,900 –> 00:37:48,100
He went to live with his
grandfather and his grandfather.

583
00:37:48,100 –> 00:37:50,900
Turned him into a Rum Runner.
As soon as he could drive in

584
00:37:50,900 –> 00:37:53,200
Brownsville Texas, somebody that
runs alcohol.

585
00:37:53,200 –> 00:37:57,900
Illegally across the border at
15 a gang attempted because he

586
00:37:57,900 –> 00:38:01,200
was good at what he did a gang
attempted to enlist him to run

587
00:38:01,200 –> 00:38:06,400
drugs.
When he refused, they said his

588
00:38:06,400 –> 00:38:08,900
house on fire while he was
asleep in it.

589
00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:14,200
And he was burned in over 80% of
his body from that fire.

590
00:38:14,700 –> 00:38:18,600
He spent a year in a hospital,
seven months lying in an oil

591
00:38:18,600 –> 00:38:28,100
bath with his eyes sewn shut.
He survived as a powerful.

592
00:38:29,300 –> 00:38:32,300
Man.
But as a loner instinctively all

593
00:38:32,300 –> 00:38:35,900
hit the while just in his own
simplistic way, seeking God, he

594
00:38:35,900 –> 00:38:39,100
could hardly speak, he doesn’t
speak the English language very

595
00:38:39,100 –> 00:38:44,900
well and I think his parents
were an Indian and Mexican.

596
00:38:46,400 –> 00:38:48,500
So his language is not very
good.

597
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:50,700
He had no education.
I don’t think you think he even

598
00:38:50,700 –> 00:38:54,000
went to school, he did.
It was just in the very early

599
00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:58,300
years of his childhood.
And on May 13 years ago when

600
00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:00,400
this was I did this two years
ago.

601
00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:05,300
So be 15 now and we’re married
in 2012, they’re baptized in

602
00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:09,100
2014.
Don had discovered the truth.

603
00:39:09,300 –> 00:39:12,100
She was taking lessons on the
internet internet, with one of

604
00:39:12,100 –> 00:39:16,000
our members and we finally had
to accelerate those lessons.

605
00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:20,200
And we started seeing her and
that led to his and her baptism

606
00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:25,700
in 2014.
So there’s another side to

607
00:39:25,700 –> 00:39:30,200
Dawn’s life beside those sparse.
Details of her story.

608
00:39:31,400 –> 00:39:35,100
Why does sister Dawn hurt so bad
because she couldn’t really come

609
00:39:35,100 –> 00:39:38,500
to meeting after.
She was baptized, she was way

610
00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:41,900
overweight, every time you went
to see her she was in pain,

611
00:39:41,900 –> 00:39:44,500
pretty serious, pain Relentless
pain.

612
00:39:44,800 –> 00:39:47,300
So this is the story of her
physical condition.

613
00:39:47,300 –> 00:39:50,800
She was born with a genetic
kidney disease called focal

614
00:39:50,800 –> 00:39:54,800
segmental.
Brahmos chlorosis, very serious

615
00:39:54,800 –> 00:39:58,200
disease being bipolar.
She was put on lithium which

616
00:39:58,200 –> 00:40:00,700
induced near neurogenic
diabetes.

617
00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:03,600
Insipidus which is otherwise
referred to as ndi causing

618
00:40:03,600 –> 00:40:07,900
chronic hypertension hydration,
these two conditions, destroyed

619
00:40:07,900 –> 00:40:12,000
her kidneys overtime converted
them to scar tissue and they

620
00:40:12,000 –> 00:40:13,700
were unable to function.
We met her.

621
00:40:13,700 –> 00:40:17,500
She had I think four percent
offer kidney function which is

622
00:40:17,500 –> 00:40:20,100
not a pleasant way to live in
2012.

623
00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:23,100
She was diagnosed with
end-stage, renal failure and

624
00:40:23,100 –> 00:40:26,300
that led to depression but all
the while she’s learning the

625
00:40:26,300 –> 00:40:28,600
truth.
And so there’s this sharp

626
00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:33,000
contrast between this miserable.
Life, which in every respect was

627
00:40:34,000 –> 00:40:36,600
met with one disaster after
another and her physical

628
00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:38,500
condition and all the Pains of
her body.

629
00:40:38,900 –> 00:40:42,900
And then she learns the truth.
So I don’t know about you.

630
00:40:42,900 –> 00:40:44,800
When I learned the truth, I was
pretty happy.

631
00:40:44,900 –> 00:40:47,100
I was also kind of miserable, I
was 17.

632
00:40:47,100 –> 00:40:50,900
I was miserable because I had
become aware of the sin, that

633
00:40:50,900 –> 00:40:53,100
dwelt, the law of sin and death
and my members.

634
00:40:53,700 –> 00:40:56,200
And so on that side of it.
But I hadn’t gone through

635
00:40:56,200 –> 00:40:59,500
anything like this.
I was raising a happy family

636
00:40:59,500 –> 00:41:03,000
with two one.
Parents who were both diligent

637
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:05,300
and applied in the truth.
Had been raised in it from their

638
00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:09,900
youth.
And and and and so I don’t think

639
00:41:09,900 –> 00:41:12,500
the truth means any more to her
than it does to me.

640
00:41:13,400 –> 00:41:17,400
But there was something about
Dawn, when she described what

641
00:41:17,400 –> 00:41:20,400
happened to her when she learned
the truth and she met

642
00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:24,600
christadelphians that just
brought her to life while she

643
00:41:24,600 –> 00:41:28,700
was dying.
This is a paradox in that, a

644
00:41:28,700 –> 00:41:31,500
wonderful Paradox to avoid
Fatality.

645
00:41:31,500 –> 00:41:34,600
She was given two options
dialysis or transplant.

646
00:41:35,200 –> 00:41:38,200
So she had to wait and she had
other conditions that would

647
00:41:38,200 –> 00:41:43,800
would that delayed everything
she started fistulas which is a

648
00:41:43,808 –> 00:41:46,800
vein artery graph for a dialysis
and they were very painful.

649
00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:48,900
She went on dialysis because
their veins were too weak for

650
00:41:48,900 –> 00:41:52,300
the fistulas and they put a
catheter to her heart and she

651
00:41:52,300 –> 00:41:54,300
would say something like that
was painful.

652
00:41:55,900 –> 00:41:59,000
Has Tom health issues, resulted
in debilitating weight, gain

653
00:41:59,000 –> 00:42:02,200
over 300 pounds, preventing the
transplant.

654
00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:07,100
There were several 7 catheter
treatments, which induced

655
00:42:07,100 –> 00:42:09,800
Strokes from constant, clotting
key magic, going through this,

656
00:42:10,300 –> 00:42:13,200
while you’re learning the truth.
And it was pretty much that

657
00:42:13,200 –> 00:42:18,800
period in the four years in
2016, without precedent or

658
00:42:18,800 –> 00:42:22,600
explanation for her.
Her kidney suddenly started

659
00:42:22,600 –> 00:42:25,100
functioning Invasion, she was on
her deathbed.

660
00:42:25,600 –> 00:42:30,300
She got baptized and just inside
two years, she was able to get

661
00:42:30,300 –> 00:42:34,300
off her dialysis and her kidney
started functioning And she

662
00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:37,500
said, this is a miracle.
I hit must be, God, is that

663
00:42:37,500 –> 00:42:40,300
close to me?
And so, all of her hope turned

664
00:42:40,300 –> 00:42:45,500
into a kind of a, an immediate
deliverance from a condition.

665
00:42:45,500 –> 00:42:47,700
She was sure was going to take
her out.

666
00:42:48,800 –> 00:42:55,100
Yeah, with her.
Familial looking call them.

667
00:42:55,100 –> 00:42:57,200
That heard the horrible
conditions of her life around

668
00:42:57,200 –> 00:43:02,000
other people who used her and
abused her and the physical

669
00:43:02,000 –> 00:43:04,300
issue she had to deal with in
all of her life.

670
00:43:05,300 –> 00:43:12,300
This is her testimony.
What are you doing?

671
00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:55,100
Yes, my fraction.
My face.

672
00:44:18,900 –> 00:44:22,700
She had makeup on the cover, the
black areas where her cheek was

673
00:44:22,700 –> 00:44:24,600
was still bruised from those
balls.

674
00:44:39,100 –> 00:45:25,100
if I’m Sharon, Christ.
because,

675
00:45:58,200 –> 00:46:01,000
I don’t know if you recognize
this but that was an area of

676
00:46:01,000 –> 00:46:04,000
consideration that dr.
Thomas went through in elpis

677
00:46:04,000 –> 00:46:07,100
Israel, calling God a liar.
If we don’t believe his

678
00:46:07,100 –> 00:46:09,900
promises, she got that from
Elvis Israel,

679
00:47:16,900 –> 00:47:46,100
So I get up and I Walk This Way.
So she had several anchors that

680
00:47:46,100 –> 00:47:49,600
she had in place that she would
mean on, as she went through all

681
00:47:49,600 –> 00:47:53,500
these cyclical burdens, she was
carrying.

682
00:47:54,300 –> 00:47:57,400
This was the one I asked her.
What’s the one verse that really

683
00:47:57,400 –> 00:48:01,400
stands out to you as the most
important in terms of your

684
00:48:01,400 –> 00:48:03,700
comfort?
And she said, for I know that my

685
00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:07,100
redeemer, she went straight to
job that my redeemer lives and

686
00:48:07,100 –> 00:48:09,500
that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the Earth.

687
00:48:11,100 –> 00:48:15,100
And though, after my skin worms,
destroy this body yet in my

688
00:48:15,100 –> 00:48:17,900
flesh.
I shall see God.

689
00:48:20,500 –> 00:48:22,800
She had a poem that she said is
her favorite poem.

690
00:48:24,600 –> 00:48:27,900
And I read that to you now, it’s
called all I hoped for, I don’t

691
00:48:27,900 –> 00:48:30,400
know if you’ve ever heard this
poem before but knowing her

692
00:48:30,400 –> 00:48:32,700
story you can see what she’s
saying.

693
00:48:33,600 –> 00:48:36,200
I asked God for strength that I
might achieve.

694
00:48:36,800 –> 00:48:40,500
I Was Made weak that I might
learn to humbly obey.

695
00:48:41,700 –> 00:48:45,700
I asked God for health that I
might do greater things, I was

696
00:48:45,700 –> 00:48:50,000
given infirmity that I might do
better things and it’s God for

697
00:48:50,000 –> 00:48:54,100
riches that I might be happy.
I was given poverty that I might

698
00:48:54,100 –> 00:48:54,800
be.
Eyes.

699
00:48:55,800 –> 00:48:58,500
I ask God for power that I might
have the praise of men.

700
00:48:59,600 –> 00:49:03,400
I was given weakness that I
might feel the need of God.

701
00:49:04,300 –> 00:49:06,700
I asked for all things that I
might enjoy life.

702
00:49:07,100 –> 00:49:17,400
I got nothing that I asked for,
but everything I had hoped for

703
00:49:18,500 –> 00:49:21,900
almost despite myself my
unspoken prayers.

704
00:49:21,900 –> 00:49:24,900
Were answered.
I am among all people.

705
00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:30,200
Most richly blessed.
Last fall, sister, Donna.

706
00:49:30,200 –> 00:49:33,000
Fell asleep in Christ.
This was just a few days before

707
00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:40,400
she finally fell asleep.
He said, Don do you have a last

708
00:49:40,400 –> 00:49:43,200
message?
I’ll write it down.

709
00:49:43,500 –> 00:49:46,300
Tell people.
She said yeah, she said no

710
00:49:46,300 –> 00:49:48,900
matter what you feel.
God is with you.

711
00:49:49,900 –> 00:49:52,200
Put yourself in your Masters
arms.

712
00:49:53,000 –> 00:49:57,500
God is real.
Tim taught me the truth and now

713
00:49:57,500 –> 00:50:00,900
I can live forever.
What I love about her language

714
00:50:01,100 –> 00:50:06,200
is is so childlike.
It sounds like the Pure Heart of

715
00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:10,600
a little child and I think in
many ways she had to survive,

716
00:50:10,600 –> 00:50:16,700
she ended bypass the weight of
her her aging, and her adulthood

717
00:50:16,700 –> 00:50:21,600
and are infirmities and narrow
down to whatever happiness she

718
00:50:21,600 –> 00:50:24,800
could.
She could see life through in

719
00:50:24,800 –> 00:50:28,700
the eyes of a little girl, and
now I can live forever.

720
00:50:29,600 –> 00:50:32,200
Before she died.
She wrote Our Ecclesia a letter.

721
00:50:32,200 –> 00:50:36,100
And this is a particular
interest to us because of the

722
00:50:36,100 –> 00:50:39,700
things that stood out to her as
being important in her

723
00:50:39,700 –> 00:50:44,000
connection to christadelphians
and to the Ecclesia, those of us

724
00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:48,300
who maybe take the Ecclesia for
granted or we’ve lived in and

725
00:50:48,300 –> 00:50:51,100
all on lives, couldn’t possibly
come up with the sort of

726
00:50:51,700 –> 00:50:55,600
realizations that she had by
suddenly in her life being

727
00:50:55,600 –> 00:51:02,700
connected to people who for her.
Were the the voice and the eyes

728
00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:08,100
and the hands of Jesus in her
life, she felt his touch.

729
00:51:08,300 –> 00:51:12,700
She saw his face and she heard
his voice in the Ecclesia.

730
00:51:14,100 –> 00:51:16,800
This is what she said.
She asked me to read this with

731
00:51:16,800 –> 00:51:18,300
the announcements one Sunday
morning.

732
00:51:18,500 –> 00:51:20,300
My dear Brothers and Sisters in
Christ.

733
00:51:21,100 –> 00:51:23,700
This letter has been long and
late in coming.

734
00:51:24,800 –> 00:51:27,600
But I can no longer remain quiet
about the mercy and power of

735
00:51:27,600 –> 00:51:30,300
Yahweh or the rocks will indeed
cry out.

736
00:51:30,800 –> 00:51:33,800
I’ve heard it said that either.
We see everything as a miracle

737
00:51:33,800 –> 00:51:37,700
or nothing as a miracle, I see
miracles.

738
00:51:38,700 –> 00:51:41,300
Our Lives themselves are a
miracle to yahweh’s ability to

739
00:51:41,300 –> 00:51:46,100
sustain us and to sustain us
simultaneously.

740
00:51:47,600 –> 00:51:50,900
The continued presence of the
Ecclesia on Earth is a miracle.

741
00:51:53,600 –> 00:51:56,000
That the truth is still being
preached and people are still

742
00:51:56,000 –> 00:51:57,900
answering, the call is a
miracle.

743
00:51:59,400 –> 00:52:01,200
She’s going.
What was she getting out there?

744
00:52:01,700 –> 00:52:05,500
The at this age of the Earth
with the world at this level of

745
00:52:05,500 –> 00:52:08,700
ungodliness and the truth is
still being preached and people

746
00:52:08,700 –> 00:52:11,200
are still answering to her is a
miracle.

747
00:52:12,300 –> 00:52:15,900
I’ve been up down and sometimes
even sideways, but my faith in

748
00:52:15,900 –> 00:52:18,400
Yahweh, his Ecclesia and hope
this.

749
00:52:19,500 –> 00:52:22,100
The men, he has given to lead
and advise us.

750
00:52:23,600 –> 00:52:26,900
The men, he has given to lead an
advisor us.

751
00:52:28,100 –> 00:52:30,500
Especially my hope in the
Kingdom has never wavered.

752
00:52:30,500 –> 00:52:35,000
So what would produce a focus on
the men of the Ecclesia that she

753
00:52:35,000 –> 00:52:37,400
had and I can tell you what that
was.

754
00:52:37,800 –> 00:52:40,200
She had known abusive men all
her life.

755
00:52:41,500 –> 00:52:44,600
Man who saw her as an object,
men who used her men who

756
00:52:44,600 –> 00:52:49,400
mistreated her broke her down.
And when she met

757
00:52:49,400 –> 00:52:54,300
christadelphians, she met men
who were gentlemen. who had

758
00:52:54,300 –> 00:52:57,800
genuine love for people who are
in trouble, who would take their

759
00:52:57,800 –> 00:53:01,400
time and give it to her who,
when they spoke sounded like,

760
00:53:02,500 –> 00:53:06,200
Jesus might be saying the same
thing who when they shared the

761
00:53:06,200 –> 00:53:10,200
bread and the wine with her
cried with her, she met men that

762
00:53:10,200 –> 00:53:12,500
took her seen so much to be like
crazy.

763
00:53:12,500 –> 00:53:15,500
We had a Rota in our khaleja.
So brother after brother went to

764
00:53:15,500 –> 00:53:18,800
see her and George where they
lived on certain Sundays.

765
00:53:19,700 –> 00:53:24,900
So she said that never wavered
one Lord, One Faith.

766
00:53:24,900 –> 00:53:27,200
One baptism.
Why did she say that she does

767
00:53:27,200 –> 00:53:29,500
that because since its
Inception, the Norfolk Ecclesia

768
00:53:29,500 –> 00:53:33,700
has had a banner up front.
That said that one Lord, One

769
00:53:33,700 –> 00:53:35,200
Faith.
One baptism.

770
00:53:36,000 –> 00:53:40,000
It’s up on our Podium now in
Gold letters and she saw that in

771
00:53:40,000 –> 00:53:43,200
the few times that she was able
to come to meeting with us.

772
00:53:43,200 –> 00:53:46,400
So that stood out to her as
something that the Ecclesia is

773
00:53:46,400 –> 00:53:51,800
about.
But when she said one hope, One

774
00:53:51,800 –> 00:53:55,400
Faith.
One baptism.

775
00:53:56,400 –> 00:54:02,000
Was there not was that not full
and Rich with substance and

776
00:54:02,000 –> 00:54:05,400
meaning the kind of substance
you and I both know is embodied

777
00:54:05,400 –> 00:54:08,900
in those words but maybe seldom
think about in the way that

778
00:54:08,900 –> 00:54:12,800
she’s using them here.
When she says God’s word stand

779
00:54:12,800 –> 00:54:15,300
on stands on its own.
And you have had the blessing to

780
00:54:15,300 –> 00:54:18,900
have found it.
So cherish the truth and

781
00:54:18,900 –> 00:54:23,600
cherish, the Ecclesia.
I wish I was there among you in

782
00:54:23,600 –> 00:54:26,300
my heart.
I am keep the one hope clearly

783
00:54:26,300 –> 00:54:29,400
in your sight.
Our Lord’s return is imminent.

784
00:54:29,500 –> 00:54:32,600
May we all be found worthy to
enter in come Lord.

785
00:54:32,600 –> 00:54:38,000
Jesus sister Dawn, you Zack.
So that was the end of her

786
00:54:38,000 –> 00:54:40,700
story.
She’s now asleep in Christ, she

787
00:54:40,700 –> 00:54:44,200
has No pain for.
He gives his beloved sleep.

788
00:54:47,700 –> 00:54:50,800
There’s no feeling in it but
it’s not unlike Bliss.

789
00:54:50,800 –> 00:54:53,500
It’s a blissful State because
it’s weightless.

790
00:54:53,500 –> 00:54:57,200
It’s painless, it has no
knowledge of the sufferings of

791
00:54:57,200 –> 00:55:01,000
the world or depressed personal
depression to be associated with

792
00:55:01,700 –> 00:55:05,800
you just sleeping.
Waiting to wake up for.

793
00:55:05,800 –> 00:55:10,500
He gives his beloved sleep.
So I said the story doesn’t end

794
00:55:10,500 –> 00:55:14,000
there because there is recovery
in the kingdom and all that

795
00:55:14,000 –> 00:55:17,800
would be meaningless without the
substance of what we understand

796
00:55:17,800 –> 00:55:19,800
lies before us in the kingdom of
God.

797
00:55:20,600 –> 00:55:24,400
Then the eyes of the blind shall
be opened The ears of the deaf

798
00:55:24,400 –> 00:55:27,100
shall be unstopped.
Then the lame.

799
00:55:27,100 –> 00:55:29,400
Shall leap like a deer or like a
heart.

800
00:55:29,400 –> 00:55:32,200
This is a picture of a hard.
It’s a young deer and the tongue

801
00:55:32,200 –> 00:55:34,400
of the dumb shall sing or
something.

802
00:55:34,400 –> 00:55:38,200
So amazing to me about this
picture because that, that

803
00:55:38,200 –> 00:55:41,700
heart, I’d love to see an
animation a movie of it.

804
00:55:41,700 –> 00:55:45,100
But that heart seems to be
weightless, not bound to gravity

805
00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:49,900
full of strength and energy.
And it’s just captured perfectly

806
00:55:49,900 –> 00:55:53,800
in this picture.
Speaking of Israel for thus,

807
00:55:53,800 –> 00:55:56,800
said, the Lord says the Lord
behold, I will extend peace to

808
00:55:56,800 –> 00:56:00,600
her like a river and the glory
of the Gentiles like a flowing

809
00:56:00,600 –> 00:56:03,200
stream.
Then you shall suck.

810
00:56:03,800 –> 00:56:06,900
You shall be borne upon her
sides and be dandled upon her

811
00:56:06,900 –> 00:56:10,100
knees as one whom his mother
Comforts.

812
00:56:10,400 –> 00:56:15,200
So I will comfort.
You, you shall be comforted In

813
00:56:15,200 –> 00:56:17,500
Jerusalem.
So the whole concept of this

814
00:56:17,500 –> 00:56:20,700
city of Peace in the city of the
great king and the Throne of

815
00:56:20,700 –> 00:56:24,700
David and the return of Christ
to establish that throne.

816
00:56:24,800 –> 00:56:28,100
And this throng of people who
once suffered standing around in

817
00:56:28,100 –> 00:56:30,800
the in praise and honor and
power and glory to his name, is

818
00:56:31,000 –> 00:56:35,100
this picture of comfort and
Jerusalem is fill in our hearts.

819
00:56:36,100 –> 00:56:39,100
There’s almost no detail left
out because God has already via

820
00:56:39,100 –> 00:56:40,800
revealed to the mouse of his
servants.

821
00:56:40,800 –> 00:56:43,900
The prophets, what he intends to
do in that day when he comes and

822
00:56:43,900 –> 00:56:48,500
is with us, He saves us.
You shall be comforted in

823
00:56:48,500 –> 00:56:52,800
Jerusalem, right now, is just
what we know, it comes in the

824
00:56:52,800 –> 00:56:56,300
form of knowledge.
This particular passage means a

825
00:56:56,308 –> 00:57:00,900
lot to me because when I was 17
having my own little trial of

826
00:57:00,900 –> 00:57:05,800
adolescence and I found peace in
baptism and I found peace In

827
00:57:05,800 –> 00:57:10,100
this passage, which I converted
to a song that my sister wife

828
00:57:10,100 –> 00:57:15,300
sang with me for years in our
youth, we sang This Together, O

829
00:57:15,300 –> 00:57:20,200
Lord, my heart is not.
Up, my eyes are not raised too

830
00:57:20,200 –> 00:57:23,300
high.
I do not occupy myself with

831
00:57:23,300 –> 00:57:27,400
things too great, and too
marvelous for me, But I have

832
00:57:27,400 –> 00:57:32,800
calmed and quieted my soul, like
a child quieted at its mother’s

833
00:57:32,800 –> 00:57:38,400
breast, like a child quiet.
He’s my soul, really, beautiful

834
00:57:38,400 –> 00:57:42,400
picture, a future, that is.
And when you see this, when you

835
00:57:42,400 –> 00:57:47,400
see it with your eyes, your
heart will rejoice and your

836
00:57:47,400 –> 00:57:50,100
bones will flourish like an
herb.

837
00:57:52,100 –> 00:57:58,700
Fifty years before, the time of
part of the time with us, when I

838
00:57:58,700 –> 00:58:02,500
was in college, my mother had a
way of sitting with her hands

839
00:58:02,500 –> 00:58:06,800
folded.
One over another and in her lap

840
00:58:07,800 –> 00:58:10,100
and her hands were the hands of
service.

841
00:58:10,100 –> 00:58:11,900
All my life.
Everyone that knew my mother

842
00:58:11,900 –> 00:58:14,500
knew that those hands symbolized
service.

843
00:58:15,500 –> 00:58:18,700
And so I said, Mom can I can I
just draw your hands?

844
00:58:18,700 –> 00:58:20,600
Thank you.
I really just want to capture

845
00:58:20,900 –> 00:58:23,700
that.
That gesture that I think is so

846
00:58:23,700 –> 00:58:25,400
beautiful in your hand.
So, she sat down.

847
00:58:25,700 –> 00:58:29,800
She had her robe on and let me
draw her hands.

848
00:58:29,800 –> 00:58:34,300
And that was when I was when she
was 44 years old.

849
00:58:34,500 –> 00:58:38,900
I was in college, then when she
was 94, 50 years later, fast

850
00:58:38,900 –> 00:58:42,900
forward, and she was dying.
She was sitting in her chair,

851
00:58:42,900 –> 00:58:45,900
she had her little arm alarm.
Watch on.

852
00:58:45,900 –> 00:58:50,900
And I looked at her hands and I
saw what I had drawn so many

853
00:58:50,900 –> 00:58:54,800
years earlier But now, in a
state of having borne all the

854
00:58:54,800 –> 00:58:59,300
weight of mortality throughout
her life and I took a picture of

855
00:58:59,300 –> 00:59:01,500
them to relate the two, which
I’m now doing.

856
00:59:01,500 –> 00:59:05,200
And I have the pleasure of doing
in this series, means a little

857
00:59:05,200 –> 00:59:07,200
bit more to me than perhaps it
would to you.

858
00:59:07,200 –> 00:59:11,000
But think of all that and
everything we thought of, and

859
00:59:11,000 –> 00:59:14,600
this verse strengthen, the weak
hands and make firm the feeble

860
00:59:14,600 –> 00:59:17,900
knees.
Because what Don would think, if

861
00:59:17,900 –> 00:59:21,400
she read that, how that would
enable her to manage her

862
00:59:21,400 –> 00:59:24,200
discomfort with strength and
what a comfort it would be to

863
00:59:24,200 –> 00:59:27,900
her say to those who are fearful
hearted be strong and do not

864
00:59:27,900 –> 00:59:32,100
appear, behold your God, will
come with vengeance with the

865
00:59:32,100 –> 00:59:35,500
recompense of God and he will
come and save you.

866
00:59:37,700 –> 00:59:41,300
The Hilton as an Earnest when he
was here, he couldn’t save the

867
00:59:41,300 –> 00:59:43,600
world.
Then, I know he wanted to I

868
00:59:43,600 –> 00:59:46,100
think that was the nature of his
prayer and disseminate when he

869
00:59:46,100 –> 00:59:50,200
said, let this cup pass from me
somehow or another, that must

870
00:59:50,200 –> 00:59:54,300
have meant if we can just bring
in peace and salvation in the

871
00:59:54,300 –> 00:59:58,000
blessing of the nation’s.
Now, isn’t it enough as the

872
00:59:58,008 –> 01:00:00,400
suffering of the world gone on
long enough.

873
01:00:00,400 –> 01:00:04,300
Now, for us to do it now,
nevertheless possibly with that,

874
01:00:04,300 –> 01:00:07,000
thought he says not my will but
thine Done.

875
01:00:08,800 –> 01:00:12,900
So, his Fame spread throughout
all Syria, because he wanted to

876
01:00:12,900 –> 01:00:14,900
do what little he could do in
that day.

877
01:00:14,900 –> 01:00:17,400
And they brought him all the
sick, those Afflicted with

878
01:00:17,400 –> 01:00:20,600
various diseases, and pains
those oppressed by demons having

879
01:00:20,600 –> 01:00:22,900
seizures, and paralytics.
And he healed them.

880
01:00:22,900 –> 01:00:26,600
Every one of them, when the sun
was setting, all those who had

881
01:00:26,600 –> 01:00:30,500
any who had were sick, and were
buried with various diseases,

882
01:00:30,500 –> 01:00:32,900
brought them to him.
And he laid his hands on every

883
01:00:32,900 –> 01:00:36,200
one of them and healed them and
healed them all, when I was a

884
01:00:36,200 –> 01:00:38,800
teenager and I would run across
this in the rare.

885
01:00:38,900 –> 01:00:43,000
Things wherever it appeared in
the gospel and many followed

886
01:00:43,000 –> 01:00:45,200
him, and he healed them all for
some reason.

887
01:00:45,500 –> 01:00:48,600
It made me cry.
Every time I read, it still does

888
01:00:48,600 –> 01:00:54,100
actually because the concept of
God sending his son to the

889
01:00:54,100 –> 01:00:58,200
Earth.
Finally, finally, in that day of

890
01:00:58,200 –> 01:01:01,600
his appearing.
That wonderful day when god

891
01:01:01,600 –> 01:01:05,600
reigns down righteousness, and
peace on this Earth and he heals

892
01:01:06,000 –> 01:01:10,400
all of the people in the world,
And you and I will see it with

893
01:01:10,400 –> 01:01:13,700
our eyes and we’ll be there with
our hands to touch them and heal

894
01:01:13,700 –> 01:01:18,600
them like he did.
There’s so much in that that he

895
01:01:18,600 –> 01:01:22,400
healed them all.
So, in the resurrection of what

896
01:01:22,400 –> 01:01:26,700
we hope for, what, Don hopes,
for now we’re raised in

897
01:01:26,700 –> 01:01:28,700
incorruption.
That means unending.

898
01:01:28,700 –> 01:01:32,400
Existence, that’s the specific
meaning of the word corruption

899
01:01:32,400 –> 01:01:35,900
in that passage air resistance.
Will never end because will now

900
01:01:35,900 –> 01:01:39,500
be have the righteousness of
God, driving our character and

901
01:01:39,500 –> 01:01:43,900
matched with perfect bodily
health and unending existence in

902
01:01:43,900 –> 01:01:49,300
mortality Will be sown in
dishonor but raised in honor

903
01:01:49,400 –> 01:01:52,400
with with and praise.
And what we know is that we are

904
01:01:52,408 –> 01:01:55,700
assembled around the throne is
seven, spirits of fire.

905
01:01:55,800 –> 01:01:59,500
Giving all the praise to Christ
who’s now in throne and is his

906
01:01:59,500 –> 01:02:03,100
mission has been fulfilled with
respect to this marriage to his

907
01:02:03,100 –> 01:02:10,200
bride.
What we get from him He puts us

908
01:02:10,200 –> 01:02:16,800
like a crown on his head.
He says you’re the jewels in my

909
01:02:16,800 –> 01:02:19,400
crown.
In that day, when I make up my

910
01:02:19,400 –> 01:02:22,800
Jewels, you are my Jewels, God
said, and Alucard.

911
01:02:24,100 –> 01:02:27,200
And we are praising him and he
gives us the praise.

912
01:02:29,100 –> 01:02:32,100
Of a groom for his bride was all
throughout the song.

913
01:02:32,100 –> 01:02:36,200
Isn’t it song Solomon?
So we’re selling and weakness

914
01:02:37,300 –> 01:02:40,600
but raised in power and that
power means miraculous abilities

915
01:02:40,600 –> 01:02:43,800
and miraculous abilities.
For us means that the comfort

916
01:02:43,800 –> 01:02:47,200
that we Now understand in full
from the tribulation, we

917
01:02:47,200 –> 01:02:50,800
suffered in our mortal lives, we
can bring to the nation’s not

918
01:02:50,800 –> 01:02:53,200
just to the Ecclesia, not to
those one or two people around

919
01:02:53,200 –> 01:02:56,600
us who need our help.
But to the nation’s, to the

920
01:02:56,600 –> 01:03:01,400
starving millions in Africa, to
the the, the pathetic abused in

921
01:03:01,400 –> 01:03:05,500
families, where there were
selfish fathers and ignorant, To

922
01:03:05,500 –> 01:03:07,900
all the people of the world who
in war-torn countries

923
01:03:07,900 –> 01:03:11,700
impoverished and starving and
full of anxiety and stress and

924
01:03:11,700 –> 01:03:15,300
perplexity of Nations and Al
miraculous abilities will be

925
01:03:15,300 –> 01:03:18,200
there.
Multiplying the hands and

926
01:03:18,200 –> 01:03:22,100
garments of Christ by thousands
upon thousands throughout the

927
01:03:22,100 –> 01:03:26,200
world.
He looked from its miseries sown

928
01:03:26,200 –> 01:03:29,400
a natural body, but raised a
spiritual body and this may be

929
01:03:29,400 –> 01:03:33,100
the best of all on a personal
level, no longer with the weight

930
01:03:33,700 –> 01:03:37,300
of sin and death in our members.
And all of us know what that

931
01:03:37,300 –> 01:03:41,000
weight is not even able to be
tempted anymore.

932
01:03:43,500 –> 01:03:47,600
God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes and once again

933
01:03:47,700 –> 01:03:53,200
I’m thinking like we read this a
lot but now in this focus and

934
01:03:53,200 –> 01:03:55,600
God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes and there shall

935
01:03:55,600 –> 01:04:01,100
be no more death, neither sorrow
nor crying neither shall there

936
01:04:01,100 –> 01:04:05,700
be any more pain for the former
things are passed away.