{"id":1035,"date":"2023-11-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/269-josh-luxmoore-exhortation-poetry\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:20:34","slug":"269-josh-luxmoore-exhortation-poetry","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/269-josh-luxmoore-exhortation-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"269: Josh Luxmoore – Exhortation: Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to the exhortation that was given by Josh Luxmoore at the Pakuranga Ecclesia in New Zealand in February of this year.<\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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\nI’m Levi.
\nAnd I’m Chris. <\/p>\n

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\nWith the short intro beforehand
\nto kind of set the stage for the<\/p>\n

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\ntalk you’re about to listen to.
\nAnd now, let’s talk more about <\/p>\n

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\nthis week’s talk.
\nThis week’s talk is an editation<\/p>\n

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\nby brother Josh Luxmore, given
\nat the Packeranga Ecclesia in <\/p>\n

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\nNew Zealand.
\nIn February of this year, the <\/p>\n

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\ntopic was poetry and this was
\nreally thought provoking for me.<\/p>\n

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\nI really benefited from the
\nmultiple angles that Josh took <\/p>\n

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\non this topic.
\nI I actually usually would rule <\/p>\n

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\nout a talk that has like a a
\nclear, like audience <\/p>\n

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\nparticipation part, which this
\ntalk has a couple, but I felt <\/p>\n

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\nthe thoughts kind of overcame
\nthat I listened to this while I <\/p>\n

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\nwas running and yeah, still
\nthought it was worth worth <\/p>\n

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\nsharing.
\nSo thank you to the person who <\/p>\n

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\nsent this in as a as a
\nsuggestion. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd here is Poetry by Josh
\nLuxmore. <\/p>\n

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\nGood morning, everybody.
\nI had more energy than any of <\/p>\n

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\nyou just then, but that’s fine.
\nKeep there, right. <\/p>\n

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\nWho in this room has played
\nfootball before for a team? <\/p>\n

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\nI mean has George has Ron has
\nlots of people with excellent. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m going to pick on George.
\nGeorge do you watch any football<\/p>\n

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\nas well you do what do you want
\nwhat what games do you watch <\/p>\n

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\nquite a few games.
\nOK Do you think you appreciate <\/p>\n

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\nfootball more because you’ve
\nplayed it. <\/p>\n

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\nExcellent answer.
\nCorrect answer. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you very much.
\nWho has written a song before? <\/p>\n

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\nLove it, Jonathan.
\nExcellent. <\/p>\n

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\nOK.
\nDo you think you appreciate <\/p>\n

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\nmusic more because you’ve
\nwritten it? <\/p>\n

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\nYeah.
\nAlso a correct answer. <\/p>\n

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\nYes, it is.
\nIf you know how a car works. <\/p>\n

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\nI know Bean does.
\nYou probably appreciate the <\/p>\n

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\ninternal combustion engine a bit
\nmore than others if you like <\/p>\n

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\nwindow joinery.
\nThen you probably appreciate the<\/p>\n

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\nthe curves and the edges and the
\nand the drainage of window <\/p>\n

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\njourney.
\nIf you’re into insurance and <\/p>\n

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\npizza ovens, you probably
\nappreciate when you go to <\/p>\n

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\nsomeone’s house and they’ve got
\na really good hot pizza oven and<\/p>\n

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\nthey can also talk insurance.
\nIf you’re into windsurfing, you <\/p>\n

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\ncan probably appreciate other
\npeople that into into <\/p>\n

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\nwindsurfing can talk to them for
\nhours about it, OK? <\/p>\n

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\nI want you to all put your hands
\nup Now, everyone, one hand in <\/p>\n

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\nthe ear knot.
\nDoesn’t have to be real high, <\/p>\n

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\njust a little bit of a hand.
\nAll right, keep your hands up. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you have written a poem in
\nthe last six months, keep your <\/p>\n

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\nhands up.
\nActually, no, let’s do it the <\/p>\n

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\nother way around.
\nKeep your hand up if you haven’t<\/p>\n

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\nwritten a poem in the last six
\nmonths. <\/p>\n

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\nOK, there we go.
\nWe’re back up. <\/p>\n

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\nKeep your hands up if you
\nhaven’t written a poem in the <\/p>\n

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\nlast two years.
\nBut you people may be thinking, <\/p>\n

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\nkeep your hand up.
\nIf you haven’t written a poem <\/p>\n

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\nfor maybe 10 years or more, OK,
\nexcellent. <\/p>\n

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\nYou can all put your hands down
\nnow. <\/p>\n

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\nParticipation A poem.
\nIt’s a literary form of <\/p>\n

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\ncreativity of an it’s an
\nillusionary type of text that <\/p>\n

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\nbrings out emotion.
\nWhere? <\/p>\n

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\nYou don’t tell someone
\nsomething. <\/p>\n

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\nYou try and make someone feel
\nsomething. <\/p>\n

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\nIt can be rhythm in poetry.
\nIt can be cadence, it can be <\/p>\n

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\ncolor.
\nIt can be imagery. <\/p>\n

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\nIt can be things that are
\npleasing, things that are <\/p>\n

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\njarring, things that are joyful
\nor confronting. <\/p>\n

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\nIt can be progression in poetry
\nor regression. <\/p>\n

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\nIt can be a development of an
\nidea. <\/p>\n

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\nOr being hung up on a thought.
\nIt can be nuanced ideas or <\/p>\n

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\nunmistakable things.
\nWhy are we talking about poetry?<\/p>\n

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\nGod has inspired the writers of
\nhis word to poetry. <\/p>\n

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\nDepending on how you define
\npoetry exactly. <\/p>\n

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\nSome people believe there’s 15%
\nof the Bible is poetry. <\/p>\n

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\nSome people.
\nSay that, by the way, is 33% <\/p>\n

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\npoetry from these obvious ones
\nin the Bible that we know from <\/p>\n

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\npeople like Job, from the
\nPsalms, from all those that <\/p>\n

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\nwrote the Psalms, Proverbs, Song
\nof Solomon’s. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have the Prophets.
\nThey wrote with allegory and <\/p>\n

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\nsimile.
\nWe had Moses and Miriam. <\/p>\n

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\nWe had Deborah and Barrett,
\nJehoshaphat, Habakkuk, the <\/p>\n

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\nLevites.
\nMany people wrote in poetic <\/p>\n

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\nform.
\nWho wrote this poem? <\/p>\n

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\nAny answers with a donkey’s
\njawbone? <\/p>\n

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\nI have made donkeys of them.
\nWith a donkey’s jawbone, I have <\/p>\n

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\nkilled 1000 men, Samson.
\nExcellent. <\/p>\n

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\nVery good enough.
\nYou knew that. <\/p>\n

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\nSo it’s all throughout the Bible
\nand thinking to my first few <\/p>\n

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\nquestions about.
\nThings that we’ve done and <\/p>\n

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\nthings that we appreciate.
\nKeep that in mind as we continue<\/p>\n

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\nthrough this.
\nSome uses of poetry that both <\/p>\n

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\nmodern day poets and perhaps the
\npoets of the Bible. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy did they use poetry?
\nCan you all recall a moment in <\/p>\n

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\nyour life when you were
\nspeechless? <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s been some pretty big
\nevents in the last, say, three <\/p>\n

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\nyears, but for many of us.
\nOr be There’s been perhaps even <\/p>\n

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\nbigger events.
\nPerhaps it’s something so <\/p>\n

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\nwonderful or so heartbreaking, a
\nmoment of being incomplete, or <\/p>\n

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\nor a moment of feeling so small,
\nbeing stunned into silence or <\/p>\n

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\nshaken into paralysis with fear,
\nthose times that you were <\/p>\n

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\nspeechless.
\nPoetry, as someone defines it, <\/p>\n

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\nis the expression of the facts
\nthat there are great things that<\/p>\n

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\nare inexpressible.
\nSo to summarize that poetry <\/p>\n

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\nhelps you to express the
\ninexpressible. <\/p>\n

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\nThere are things that HIPS
\nallows unspeakable words to <\/p>\n

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\nflow.
\nThere’s a reason that maybe <\/p>\n

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\npoetry helps us to share these
\nthings that we could not put <\/p>\n

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\ninto words.
\nLike the fact that there’s no <\/p>\n

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\none-on-one.
\nDialogue with poetry, often <\/p>\n

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\nsomething you don’t say out loud
\nin a moment to someone. <\/p>\n

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\nSomething you carefully write
\ndown without any instant <\/p>\n

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\nreaction from someone.
\nNo forthcoming reply. <\/p>\n

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\nA poem can be written with one
\nperson in mind that may never <\/p>\n

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\nread it, or it could address one
\nhuge population, but in that <\/p>\n

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\nthere is some power.
\nThat there is nobody there to <\/p>\n

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\nanswer immediately.
\nLet’s look at some poetry from <\/p>\n

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\nsome pretty pictures from God’s
\nword. <\/p>\n

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\nLet’s let’s You don’t need to
\nturn this up. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’ll hope you’re turning up
\nsome soon. <\/p>\n

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\nLet’s look at Isaiah, spelled
\nslightly strangely. <\/p>\n

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\nChapter 5 from verse 26.
\nI’m going to read from here <\/p>\n

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\nbecause it’s tiny.
\nHe lifts up a banner. <\/p>\n

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\nOr the distant nations.
\nHe whistles for those at the <\/p>\n

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\nends of the earth.
\nHere they come swiftly and <\/p>\n

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\nspeedily.
\nNot one of them grows tired or <\/p>\n

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\nstumbles.
\nNot one slumbers or sleeps. <\/p>\n

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\nNot a belt is loosened at the
\nwaist. <\/p>\n

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\nNot a sand or strap is broken.
\nTheir arrows are sharp, All <\/p>\n

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\ntheir bows are strung.
\nTheir horses hooves seem like <\/p>\n

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\nFlint, their chariot wheels like
\na whirlwind. <\/p>\n

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\nTheir roar is like bet of a
\nlion. <\/p>\n

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\nThey roar like Young Lions.
\nThey growl as they seize their <\/p>\n

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\nprey and carry it off with no
\none to rescue. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is some poetry,
\nessentially, by Isaiah. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a poem about how the Lord
\nwill use the outside nations to <\/p>\n

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\npunish his people for their
\nwickedness. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, he explains, like an animal
\ntrainer, the Lord will whistle. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd these powerful armies of the
\nnations come rushing to execute <\/p>\n

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\ntheir judgment or His judgment
\non Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nTheir army that comes is
\nrunning, is running. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they are not a sloppy army.
\nThey are a well oiled machine <\/p>\n

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\nwith few with very few
\nweaknesses. <\/p>\n

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\nNot a single soldier is tired or
\nstumbling or falling asleep on <\/p>\n

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\nthe way.
\nThey’re determined. <\/p>\n

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\nTheir belts are clenched tight.
\nMeaning their robes are secured <\/p>\n

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\nfor running.
\nSo this bit of poetry here as I <\/p>\n

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\ncould have passed on it a little
\nbit more efficiently. <\/p>\n

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\nHe could have said Israel is an
\narmy coming and there’s nothing <\/p>\n

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\nyou can do about it.
\nThe end? <\/p>\n

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\nYou could have Bullet pointed
\nthat out really briefly and not <\/p>\n

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\ngiven that much, but I’ve only
\nexplained a few verses there. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd probably triple the amount
\nof words of this poem. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I haven’t done it justice.
\nSo the interesting thing about <\/p>\n

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\npoems is you could probably
\nreduce them down to hits just a <\/p>\n

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\nfew words, but also you could
\ntake 30 times the words to <\/p>\n

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\nactually explain all of the
\nmeaning behind a poem such as <\/p>\n

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\nthis.
\nBut either way, poetry has a way<\/p>\n

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\nof making a slow down.
\nThis is not something we can <\/p>\n

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\nrush over these words and we are
\nin an age where we are trying to<\/p>\n

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\nread and digest and move on
\nquickly with information. <\/p>\n

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\nWe don’t read a poem anymore and
\ntake time. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s not the normal day-to-day
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nWe are moving on quickly with
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\nHere’s an example.
\nGot a message here from King <\/p>\n

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\nDavid.
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\nwill hide me and the lights
\nbecome nights around me. <\/p>\n

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\nEven the darkness will not be
\ndark to you. <\/p>\n

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\nThe night will shine like the
\nday or darkness because there’s <\/p>\n

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\nlight to you, I might reply.
\nOK, thanks for that. <\/p>\n

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\nAll good.
\nThat’s the sort of approach we <\/p>\n

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\ntake sometimes with information
\ninclude read, including reading.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Bible and poetry deserves
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\nIt deserves us to really sit on
\nit and understand it and <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand the the contrast here
\nbetween darkness and night and <\/p>\n

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\nlight and day, and how and how
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\nIt’s not something that we can
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\nshort moment of thought.
\nThere’s a proverb as well, which<\/p>\n

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\nis Oh no, that is the proverb at
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\nThis is a comment that I’ve read
\nonline which helps us to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand that this poetry
\nisn’t necessarily easy, but it <\/p>\n

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\nis something that we need to
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\nsearch that God requires, not
\nanswers. <\/p>\n

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\nOur goals should not to be
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\ncommunion with God.
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\nThe answers are the most
\nimportant thing, but simply <\/p>\n

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\nsearching is what God wants us
\nto do. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd perhaps sometimes the way
\nthat this words that we’ve had <\/p>\n

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\nin front of us is written is so
\nthat we spend time with God <\/p>\n

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\nreflecting on the poetry,
\nreflecting on all of the <\/p>\n

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\nindividual words.
\nWe’re going to turn up two <\/p>\n

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\npoems.
\nLet’s turn up John and chapter <\/p>\n

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\n15.
\nJohn, Chapter 15. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re going to read the 1st 8
\nverses. <\/p>\n

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\nI am the true vine and my father
\nis the gardener. <\/p>\n

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\nHe cuts off every branch in me
\nthat bears no fruit, while every<\/p>\n

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\nbranch that does bear fruit he
\nprunes so that it will be even <\/p>\n

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\nmore fruitful.
\nYou are already clean because of<\/p>\n

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\nthe words I have spoken to you.
\nRemain in me, and I will remain <\/p>\n

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\nin you.
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\nitself.
\nIt must remain in the vine. <\/p>\n

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\nNeither can you bear fruit
\nunless you remain in me. <\/p>\n

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\nI am the vine.
\nYou are the branches. <\/p>\n

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\nIf a man remains in me, and I am
\nhim, he will bear much fruit <\/p>\n

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\napart from me.
\nYou can do nothing. <\/p>\n

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\nIf anyone does not remain in me,
\nhe is like a branch that is <\/p>\n

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\nthrown away and Withers.
\nSuch branches are picked up, <\/p>\n

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\nthrown into the fire, and
\nburned. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you remain in Me, and my
\nwords remain in you, ask <\/p>\n

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\nwhatever you wish, and it will
\nbe given you. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is to my Father’s glory
\nthat you bear much fruit, <\/p>\n

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\nshowing yourselves to be my
\ndisciples just to show that. <\/p>\n

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\nJesus spoken poetic language
\nusing. <\/p>\n

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\nAllegory using.
\nSimilarly, using things to <\/p>\n

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\nexplain his message, they
\nweren’t. <\/p>\n

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\nNecessary literal, but rather
\npoetic. <\/p>\n

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\nLet’s also turn up Isaiah and
\nChapter 55. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd verse 10.
\nAs the rain and the snow come <\/p>\n

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\ndown from heaven and do not
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\nthe earth and making it buds and
\nflourish, so that it yields seed<\/p>\n

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\nfor the sower and bread for the
\neater, so is my word that goes <\/p>\n

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\nout from my mouth.
\nIt will not return to me empty, <\/p>\n

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\nbut will accomplish what I
\ndesire and achieve the purpose <\/p>\n

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\nfor which I’ve sent it.
\nThis, these things aren’t. <\/p>\n

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\nExactly literal are they?
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\nthings.
\nAnd God here is basically <\/p>\n

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\nexplaining the purpose of poetic
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\nwords to go out that they may
\nchange us. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I believe the way the Bible
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\ntechnique that God uses to
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\nright?
\nWe thought this morning had been<\/p>\n

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\na little interactive already.
\nWe have a challenge this morning<\/p>\n

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\nand that is to write a poem.
\nSo many of you have not been <\/p>\n

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\nwriting poems, so we’re going to
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\nthis morning.
\nWe’re here to remember the <\/p>\n

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\nsacrifice of our Lord through
\nbread and wine, and sometimes <\/p>\n

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\nwords don’t come easily with.
\nWhat that means to us, the fact <\/p>\n

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\nthat Jesus died our king, what
\nhe has done. <\/p>\n

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\nSo the challenge is not for the
\nweaker hit, it’s for right now. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s to begin this journey of
\nunderstanding the poetry of the <\/p>\n

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\nBible better by being a creator
\nof poetry ourselves, to learn to<\/p>\n

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\nappreciate and find the meaning
\nin poetry. <\/p>\n

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\nThat we might learn and
\nappreciate and find meaning in <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s poetry.
\nSo I had a paper. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, let’s start this now.
\nGeorge, can I get your hand <\/p>\n

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\nhands with you?
\nDoes anyone need paper? <\/p>\n

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\nOh, maybe we don’t need much of
\nyour hand. <\/p>\n

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\nAnyone need paper?
\nYou’re going to need to write. <\/p>\n

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\nOh, yeah, fine is fine.
\nAnyone. <\/p>\n

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\nHis Hands up, George.
\nI also have pins. <\/p>\n

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\nIf anyone needs pins.
\nEveryone’s looking. <\/p>\n

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\nAll right.
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\nRight now.
\nI don’t expect that you are <\/p>\n

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\nnecessarily right in the
\nmindset. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, despite the facts.
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\nand we’ve discussed a little bit
\nabout what poems are. <\/p>\n

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\nI want to help you get there a
\nlittle bit more. <\/p>\n

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\nSo as George is handing out any
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\nwe’re going to have a little bit
\nof inspiration. <\/p>\n

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\nTo get us going to write poetry.
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\nhelps us to draw closer to the
\nword of God, This exercise, and <\/p>\n

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\nagain reminding you that what we
\nvery loosely maybe want to base <\/p>\n

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\nour poem on is is the sacrifice
\nor the redemption or the meaning<\/p>\n

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\nof Jesus and his death and his
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\nWhatever you like.
\nI don’t want to box you into too<\/p>\n

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\nmuch, but let’s quickly discuss
\na few things that might help <\/p>\n

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\nyou.
\nTo get going with a poem, by the<\/p>\n

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\nway, before we start this as
\nwell, I’m not No one’s getting <\/p>\n

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\nup to read a poem.
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\nAnd if you get 2 lines on paper,
\nthen that’s great, That’s there <\/p>\n

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\nis no right or wrong, no fail or
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\ninteraction, all right?
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\npoem is to think on a word.
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\nphrases of Psalm 2 words.
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\nBut there are some words there
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\ninspire us that we can just sit
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\nquestion like we talked about
\nsomething before, something that<\/p>\n

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\nis makes us a bit speechless.
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\nasked very often and has a few
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\nMaybe it’s a question something
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\nDon’t forget there are some
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\nmetaphors where we might compare
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\nsomething else, or seeing
\nsomething as like seeing <\/p>\n

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\nyou when you think of metaphors,
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\nFeel free.
\nThat’s a that’s a nice easy way <\/p>\n

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\nto get started.
\nThink of 1 phrase and see if you<\/p>\n

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\ncan repeat that.
\nIf we stick in line, we know <\/p>\n

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\nthere’s some Psalms written like
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\nIt might be simply as great as
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\ngreat as our God, something that
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\nis very much poetry.
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\nsome structure and one classic
\none is going good, bad, good. <\/p>\n

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\nIn terms of a poem, you start
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\ndescends, but then there is some
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\nof good thing at the end.
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\nis another great way to get us
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\nappreciate the the use of words
\nin a certain way. <\/p>\n

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\nSo there are some examples there
\nof some poems, some poetry, <\/p>\n

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\nlanguage from God’s words that
\nwe can use. <\/p>\n

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\nSo it’s 22 and I’m going to do
\nit by my phone. <\/p>\n

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\nOK, cool.
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\nminutes.
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\nof instrumental hymns just while
\nyou do that. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I’ll leave you to it.
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\nI’m sure you’ve got a full page
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\nit can’t, and sometimes you just
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\nsomething out before other
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\nTo conclude, it’s worth
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\ncreative himself from creation
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\nover thousands of generations,
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\nThe ways that he has called
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\ncalls them, the way that his
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\nThere’s so much to the story
\nthat God has added. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then we have Jesus with his
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\nWhat amazing stories of
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\nIt’s creative ways of healing
\npeople. <\/p>\n

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\nThere was barely 2 healings, the
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\nof language that could confound
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\nwe can have the opportunity to
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\nbecoming more creative, being a
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\nhaving a common interest like
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\nlike poetry.
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\nlast bit of poetry I want to
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\nBut we have this treasure in
\njars of play to show that it’s <\/p>\n

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