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\nbrother Bob to give us an ex
\nexciting installment of the way <\/p>\n
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\nof life.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t move as fast as I used to.
\nWell, good evening, two actors, <\/p>\n
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\ngood afternoon.
\nThe last two talks for now, <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ve had this wonderful meal
\nand don’t you think these <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters have worked
\nvery hard and providing for our <\/p>\n
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\nnecessities and delivering that
\ngood food to us and we thank all<\/p>\n
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\nof you who have worked.
\nSo tirelessly behind the scenes <\/p>\n
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\nto make these kind of gatherings
\npossible. <\/p>\n
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\nThey don’t just happen, it’s a
\nlot of people working together. <\/p>\n
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\nBring about these gatherings and
\nso all of us who are here are <\/p>\n
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\nrecipients of that and we thank
\nyou for that. <\/p>\n
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\nWell I hope you don’t haven’t
\ngot an overdose of me. <\/p>\n
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\nI promise this is the last Talk
\nof the day but there’s some more<\/p>\n
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\ncoming up tomorrow so I hope
\nyou’ll come back. <\/p>\n
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\nOur key verse.
\nAnd all these classes is from <\/p>\n
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\nJohn 14, which we read for a
\nfirst-class where Jesus said, I <\/p>\n
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\nam the way, the truth, and the
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nNo man cometh unto the father,
\nbut by me, so Jesus is the way. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we can’t come to the father
\nexcept through Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we even when we pray, we
\npray in Jesus name. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so, if we want to be in the
\nway of life, we have to be <\/p>\n
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\nfollowing the Lord Jesus Christ,
\nand as we’ve mentioned before, <\/p>\n
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\nthere are lots of wrong ways.
\nBut there’s only one, right way.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd we not free to make up our
\nown rules, and that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nproblem with the world today,
\npeople make up their own <\/p>\n
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\nreligion.
\nAnd then say, if God is, just, <\/p>\n
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\nhe accept me for believing what
\nI want to believe. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we had the audacity to tell
\nGod what we’re going to do. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is the boss and if he’s the
\nboss, you’re not the boss. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if he’s the boss, we find
\nout what he wants us to do. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then to the best of our
\nability, we try to do it and <\/p>\n
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\naren’t we thankful for
\nforgiveness? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause if it weren’t for
\nforgiveness, none of us would be<\/p>\n
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\nin the Kingdom but because of
\nthe forgiveness and the mercy of<\/p>\n
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\nGod, we can all be in the
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nWe, if we want to be in the
\nKingdom, so we have to make that<\/p>\n
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\ncommitment that we want to be in
\nthe kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nMore than anything else in all
\nthe world. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said to us in, Matthew 10,
\nhe that endureth to the end <\/p>\n
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\nshall be saved.
\nSo, this is a matter of keeping <\/p>\n
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\non keeping on.
\nYou have to can’t just be a <\/p>\n
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\none-night.
\nStand, christadelphians are not <\/p>\n
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\nSunday christadelphians where
\nseven days a week. 24\/7 is a <\/p>\n
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\nphrase we have over, are we
\ngoing 24 hours a day? <\/p>\n
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\n7 days a week?
\nAnd so that’s the way we serve <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord all the time in our
\nfirst class just as a review, we<\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the high hurdler who
\nhas to jump over the hurdles in <\/p>\n
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\norder to win.
\nWe must overcome the hurdles in <\/p>\n
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\nour life and so thinking of them
\nas something bad, we need to <\/p>\n
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\nthink of them as something good
\nhelping us to get into the <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom.
\nJesus said in Revelations 21. <\/p>\n
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\nHe that overcometh shall inherit
\nall things. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I will be his God and he
\nshall be my son in our second <\/p>\n
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\nclass.
\nWe weren’t learned that God <\/p>\n
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\nwants us in his kingdom, but we
\nhave to want it ourselves or we <\/p>\n
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\nwon’t be there.
\nHe that loveth father is Jesus <\/p>\n
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\ntalking talking to you.
\nAnd to me, he that loveth father<\/p>\n
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\nor mother more than me is.
\nNot worthy of me. <\/p>\n
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\nDoesn’t mean you’re not to love
\nyour father and mother, you must<\/p>\n
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\nlove God.
\nAnd Jesus more. <\/p>\n
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\nBut didn’t Jesus didn’t stop
\nthere, he that loveth son or <\/p>\n
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\ndaughter more than me is not
\nworthy of me. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd certainly, we do love our
\nchildren, and this room is full <\/p>\n
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\nof beautiful little children,
\nand I can tell that your parents<\/p>\n
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\nare very much in love with him.
\nAnd you’ve been working very <\/p>\n
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\nhard to be a good parent and you
\nare to love them. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you must never even put your
\nchildren ahead of God or ahead <\/p>\n
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\nof the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nSo it’s a matter of prioritizing<\/p>\n
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\nour life.
\nSo that the right things are <\/p>\n
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\nIf God, and Jesus are not number<\/p>\n
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\none, in your life, it does not
\nmatter where they are. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you may say, well, they
\nused to be number seven. <\/p>\n
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\nAnother number for well, you’re
\ngoing in the right direction, <\/p>\n
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\nbut until they are number one in
\nour life. <\/p>\n
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\nWe are hopeless and so we have
\nto have this all-consuming. <\/p>\n
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\nLove love the Lord, thy God with
\nall thy heart and all this. <\/p>\n
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\nAll this particular all them.
\nIt’s it’s the egg of a <\/p>\n
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\nself-sacrificing love and you
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\nyou don’t, you can get it.
\nBut you have to work at it. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember that, even Peter?
\nJesus asked him three times. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you love me?
\nWell, no he didn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nHe ask him to times.
\nDo you a Gap? <\/p>\n
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\nA me.
\nPeter who had denied him three <\/p>\n
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\ntimes couldn’t bring himself to
\nsay I can pay you. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Jesus says, do you have this
\nself sacrificing all out? <\/p>\n
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\nLove for me and Peter would say,
\nLord, you know, I have a very <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jesus will say, do you have
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\nLove for me. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Peter said, Lord, you know,
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\nfriendly love towards you and
\nthen Jesus changed the word to <\/p>\n
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\nDo you filial to you have this <\/p>\n
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\nNo wonder Peter was grieved
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\ngrieved, he said, you know, all
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\nwhat you do with what do you do <\/p>\n
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\nwith this love feed my Lambs,
\nfeed my sheep. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, this room is full of
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\nIn front of you. <\/p>\n
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\nThose are the Sheep.
\nWe are to be feeding and others <\/p>\n
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\nthat are not here tonight.
\nBut are we conscious <\/p>\n
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\nconscientiously looking after
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\nMore than we look after our
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\nNow the Lord Jesus gave us a
\ngood example of this because he <\/p>\n
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\nwas hungry.
\nNow, you’re not hungry. <\/p>\n
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\nNow you’ve just had a very nice
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\nBecause I know you have never
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\nHe was starving.
\nHe had the power to turn stones <\/p>\n
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\nHe could have used God’s power <\/p>\n
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\nhungry, then he’s out preaching
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\nmultitude of ways old know.
\nThey’ve been with us a few days <\/p>\n
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\nthat I’m afraid your fate.
\nLet’s do a miracle and feed him.<\/p>\n
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\nSo, Jesus would do a miracle to
\nfeed others. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he wouldn’t do a miracle to
\nfeed himself. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, that’s the egg of a love.
\nThat’s the self-sacrificing that<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s the kind of love.
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\nAnd so, and when Peter wrote his
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\nBrethren, take your fervent
\nfilial, love. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd see that you turn it into an
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\nof one another, he said your
\nfilial love was, unfaithful you,<\/p>\n
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\nit’s nothing phony.
\nYou really do love your brother <\/p>\n
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\nare you putting their needs <\/p>\n
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\nahead of yours?
\nIf there was only one meal left <\/p>\n
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\nand it was to several here,
\nwould you take it first? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat would you say?
\nNo, you have it. <\/p>\n
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\nAre we sacrificing our self for
\nothers? <\/p>\n
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\nNow, I tell you what.
\nHaving children shows us how to <\/p>\n
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\ndo this because a good parrot,
\nreally does. <\/p>\n
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\nPut the needs of their little
\nchildren ahead of their own. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re tired, they’re sleepy.
\nThey’re in bed. <\/p>\n
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\nThe baby’s crying, you scold.
\nYou don’t want to get out of bed<\/p>\n
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\nbefore, but you do You, you put
\nthe needs of a little child <\/p>\n
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\nahead of your own needs, and
\nthat’s the kind of love. <\/p>\n
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\nGod is looking for us to do with
\neach other, certainly our <\/p>\n
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\nfamily, but also others.
\nDo good unto all men, especially<\/p>\n
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\nthose of the household of faith.
\nSo if we love anything more than<\/p>\n
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\nwe love the Lord, then whatever
\nthat thing is, is our God, and <\/p>\n
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\nit could be our family.
\nI mean, even the mafia loves <\/p>\n
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\ntheir mother.
\nI mean, I mean, mama fixing up. <\/p>\n
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\nA big spaghetti dinner?
\nYou’re going out to whip <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody after you better go eat
\nfirst, you know? <\/p>\n
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\nSo they, they do kind things to
\nother people to help them do bad<\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nBut you see our love is <\/p>\n
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\nmotivated because of our love
\nfor God and we just forget about<\/p>\n
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\nyourself don’t even think about
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
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\nThink.
\nWhat can I do to help someone <\/p>\n
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\nelse?
\nThat’s the way Jesus lived. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the way he wants us to
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\ncross and follow me.
\nNow, we want to in this class to<\/p>\n
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\nexamine our attitude because our
\nattitude more than our attitude <\/p>\n
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\nwill determine our altitude.
\nI hope you got that attitude <\/p>\n
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\nattitude, attitude, attitude and
\naltitude. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause if you really want to
\nsoar High, you’ve got to have <\/p>\n
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\nthe right attitude.
\nNow there I know this won’t <\/p>\n
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\nshock you But there’s a lot
\nsmarter people in the world than<\/p>\n
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\nus.
\nI mean, there are people out <\/p>\n
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\nthere in the world with higher
\nIQs than any of us have. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are some brilliant people
\nin this world who have a lot of <\/p>\n
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\npeople at a time back in those
\ndays. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:22:18,000 –> 00:22:21,900
\nAnd now we realize that because
\nGod has allowed knowledge to be <\/p>\n
337
\n00:22:21,900 –> 00:22:27,500
\nincreased and some idiot could
\npush a button and start start a <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:27,500 –> 00:22:32,300
\nnuclear war that would blow
\neverybody on Earth that Does it <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:32,300 –> 00:22:35,500
\nworry?
\nYou know, it’s not in God’s <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:35,500 –> 00:22:39,000
\nplan.
\nHe has a plan and there are <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:39,000 –> 00:22:40,900
\npeople.
\nThat’s why I think this country <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:40,900 –> 00:22:43,300
\nis worried.
\nAs our country is, as Great. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:43,300 –> 00:22:49,600
\nBritain about Iran, getting a
\nnuclear bomb about North Korea, <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:49,600 –> 00:22:53,500
\ngetting one because those guys
\nare crazy and what will they do <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:53,500 –> 00:22:56,400
\nif they get it?
\nDoes it worry you? <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:56,600 –> 00:22:58,900
\nNot at all?
\nDoes it worry the world? <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:59,100 –> 00:23:01,600
\nWell, Luke says their men’s
\nhearts are failing them. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:01,800 –> 00:23:03,900
\nFear and for looking, after
\nthose things are coming upon the<\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:03,900 –> 00:23:08,700
\nEarth, if you didn’t know the
\ntruth and you just look at the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:08,700 –> 00:23:13,500
\nnewspapers, you are to be
\nquaking in your boots because <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:13,500 –> 00:23:17,200
\nthere is no solution to the
\nproblems that this world is <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:17,200 –> 00:23:19,500
\nfacing.
\nAnd there’s only one solution <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:19,500 –> 00:23:23,800
\nand that’s God’s solution.
\nAnd that is going to be carried <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:23,800 –> 00:23:26,700
\nout.
\nAnd we want to be part of it. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:26,800 –> 00:23:28,800
\nSo we don’t get mixed up with
\ntheir Affairs because we will, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:29,000 –> 00:23:33,900
\nwe have a king and our man was
\nnot running for office in this <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:33,900 –> 00:23:36,700
\nlast election.
\nBecause he’s going to be the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:36,700 –> 00:23:39,000
\nking of the world.
\nNow, have an interesting <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:39,000 –> 00:23:42,500
\nquestion, I want to ask you and
\nI want you to say it out loud, <\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:42,500 –> 00:23:44,900
\nbut I just want you to answer
\nthis question for yourself. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:45,600 –> 00:23:54,200
\nHow do you view your own life?
\nHow do you view your life? <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:55,000 –> 00:23:58,400
\nThe way we see our life will
\nsheep our life. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:58,900 –> 00:24:01,600
\nWe’re talking about the way of
\nlife that’s our subject. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:02,200 –> 00:24:06,600
\nHow do you view your life now?
\nDifferent people after this <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:06,600 –> 00:24:09,800
\ndifferent, even christadelphians
\ncircles, it will not all see the<\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:09,800 –> 00:24:12,700
\nsame, some of the describe their
\nlife as a circus. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:13,500 –> 00:24:16,600
\nMy life is a Minefield and I
\nknew the roller coaster. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:17,100 –> 00:24:20,300
\nMy line is a, my life is a
\npuzzle. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:20,300 –> 00:24:25,000
\nIt’s a symphony.
\nIt’s a Some just grab their life<\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:25,000 –> 00:24:28,900
\nlike a merry-go-round going
\nround and round and up and up <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:28,900 –> 00:24:31,000
\nand up and down and never get
\nanywhere. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:32,500 –> 00:24:36,300
\nOur subject is the way of life,
\nit’s useful. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:36,300 –> 00:24:41,900
\nIf each of us will just pick a
\nshort phrase of two or three <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:41,900 –> 00:24:48,900
\nwords that two pictures in your
\nown mind, your own life, So, I <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:48,908 –> 00:24:52,400
\nwant you to think about this for
\na minute, what, what image comes<\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:52,400 –> 00:24:56,700
\nto your mind when you ask, how
\ndo I view my life? <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:57,700 –> 00:25:00,500
\nYou have a life metaphor.
\nYou, you have a even <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:00,500 –> 00:25:03,500
\nunconsciously, even if you
\nhaven’t thought it out and he <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:03,500 –> 00:25:07,200
\nhas an effect upon your life.
\nNow, you can tell what some <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:07,200 –> 00:25:11,000
\npeople’s life metaphor is about,
\nbecause they express it in the <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:11,000 –> 00:25:16,700
\nway they dress, or don’t in
\ntheir jewelry when they’re <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:16,700 –> 00:25:20,300
\ncaught a mobiles, they drive. in
\ntheir hairstyle if I had hair to<\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:20,300 –> 00:25:27,600
\nstyle in their Sports, in their
\nHobbies, And so these people are<\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:27,600 –> 00:25:31,700
\nbusy doing what they think is
\nimportant and they have a my <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:31,700 –> 00:25:35,300
\nlife metaphor and you have one
\neven though if you haven’t <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:35,300 –> 00:25:37,600
\nverbalized it we’re going to do
\nit this evening because I think <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:37,600 –> 00:25:40,500
\nyou’ll help us.
\nFor example, if we were to say <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:40,500 –> 00:25:46,000
\nwell my life is like a party.
\nWell then your you principle of <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:46,000 –> 00:25:50,800
\nlife will be to have fun.
\nI see my life as a race, then <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:54,400
\nyou will value speed.
\nI see my life as a marathon. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:54,700 –> 00:25:56,300
\nWell then you’re going to talk
\nthink about it. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:56,500 –> 00:26:00,300
\nDurance.
\nWhat is your life metaphor? <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:00,300 –> 00:26:05,800
\nAnd the question is, could you
\nhave a faulty life metaphor that<\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:05,800 –> 00:26:10,500
\nneeds to be replaced by a Godly
\nlife metaphor? <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:12,400 –> 00:26:17,000
\nAnd so, Paul speaking to us in
\nRomans, 12 says, I beseech you. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:17,800 –> 00:26:20,800
\nHe’s pleading, he’s not bawling
\nyour eyes, please. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:21,200 –> 00:26:23,900
\nI beseech you, therefore
\nBrethren by the mercies of God, <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:24,100 –> 00:26:28,000
\nthat you present, your bodies, a
\nLiving Sacrifice, holy <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:28,000 –> 00:26:31,100
\nacceptable, unto God, which is
\nyour reasonable service and be <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:31,100 –> 00:26:35,800
\nnot conformed to this world, but
\nbe ye transformed by the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:35,800 –> 00:26:37,900
\nrenewing of your mind that ye
\nmay prove. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:37,900 –> 00:26:40,200
\nWhat is that good and acceptable
\nand perfect will of God. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:40,800 –> 00:26:42,000
\nNow, I like the Phillips
\ntranslation. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:42,400 –> 00:26:46,400
\nDon’t let the word around you,
\nsqueeze you into its mold and <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:46,400 –> 00:26:49,400
\njust think yourself as a mole
\nand the and you’re being <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:49,400 –> 00:26:52,300
\nsqueezed and the world is what
\nmold and you’re being like a <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:52,308 –> 00:26:54,600
\nlump of clay.
\nYou’re being squeezed into God’s<\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:54,600 –> 00:26:57,300
\nwill in this book and what in
\nthe world do they turn on the <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:57,300 –> 00:27:00,700
\ntelevision, your turn on radio.
\nThey tell you by sudsy, wudsy, <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:00,700 –> 00:27:03,500
\nsoap do this, go there to
\nwhatever you and their <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:03,500 –> 00:27:05,600
\nprogramming.
\nDon’t leave home without it. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:05,600 –> 00:27:09,000
\nWhat does that mean?
\nAnybody know. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:10,400 –> 00:27:15,900
\nHuh, and American Express, who
\ntold you? <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:18,000 –> 00:27:21,900
\nYou see, American Express has
\nsent millions of dollars to <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:22,300 –> 00:27:27,500
\nsqueeze us into its mold.
\nNow I think we shouldn’t leave <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:27,500 –> 00:27:29,800
\nhome without a to but I don’t
\nthink it’s American Express, I <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:29,800 –> 00:27:32,300
\nthink it should be literature.
\nI think every time you walk out <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:32,300 –> 00:27:34,700
\nof your house you shouldn’t have
\nliterature on you and you never <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:34,700 –> 00:27:36,900
\nknow who you’re going to get to
\ntalk to and they may ask you a <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:36,900 –> 00:27:40,500
\nquestion and you say oh there’s
\nwhen I come back I’ll see I’ve <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:40,500 –> 00:27:42,600
\nbeen on a bit over Australia.
\nWhy did you go over Austria? <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:42,800 –> 00:27:45,200
\nI went over there to get some
\ntalks to my church. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:45,200 –> 00:27:47,600
\nWhat church Christian was?
\nWhat’s that here you are? <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:50,600 –> 00:27:54,500
\nSo I think everyone of you, I do
\nnot leave home without it but <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:54,500 –> 00:27:57,200
\nwhy don’t you don’t leave home
\nwithout it some literature <\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:57,400 –> 00:27:59,600
\nbecause you never know when you
\nmay be able to share it with <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:59,600 –> 00:28:06,600
\nsomebody, but Paul here is
\nsaying I beseech you to present <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:06,600 –> 00:28:11,600
\nyour body a Living Sacrifice and
\nto do this, you do not be <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:11,600 –> 00:28:16,500
\ntransformed.
\nWe do not conform but be <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:16,500 –> 00:28:19,000
\ntransformed by the renewing of
\nyour mind. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:20,200 –> 00:28:25,100
\nNow, you know that verse
\neverything in the New Testament,<\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:25,100 –> 00:28:31,100
\nJesus comes from Greek word.
\nAnd that word transformed comes <\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:31,100 –> 00:28:33,700
\nfrom the Greek word metamorph.
\nOoh. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:34,100 –> 00:28:37,500
\nAnd metamorph who is a reserved
\nword for the wedmore metamorph <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:37,500 –> 00:28:39,400
\nus?
\nAnd so I brought my little green<\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:39,400 –> 00:28:42,700
\ncaterpillar with me, I had
\ntrouble with this guy coming <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:48,600
\nthrough customs, they look them
\nup and usually I just bring him <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:48,600 –> 00:28:51,400
\nalong and you know slippers Went
\nthrough, but I was in South <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:51,400 –> 00:28:55,300
\nAfrica with him a few years ago
\nand they were go through my <\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:55,300 –> 00:28:57,300
\nluggage.
\nAnd the guy says, what’s that? <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:59,900 –> 00:29:03,000
\nI got very passive sir that’s my
\nstuff. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:07,000
\nCaterpillar some people like
\nteddy bears, but I go for cat <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:07,000 –> 00:29:10,500
\nappears.
\nHe has no sense of humor. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:12,800
\nHe threw it in my base is get
\nout of here. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:13,700 –> 00:29:17,300
\nSo this time for the first time
\nin my life I had a lady doing it<\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:17,800 –> 00:29:21,100
\nand she says what is that?
\nAnd I said it’s my stuff <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:21,100 –> 00:29:23,700
\ncaterpillar and she’s watching
\nstuffed with Isis. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:23,700 –> 00:29:26,500
\nI don’t even know.
\nI think it’s some kind of beans.<\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:29,500
\nMy daughter-in-law made this for
\nme many. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:29,700 –> 00:29:32,300
\nMaybe 20 years ago and I take
\nhim all around the world, <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:32,300 –> 00:29:35,800
\nbecause he belongs in Romans
\nchapter 12. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:37,200 –> 00:29:40,100
\nAnd Romans chapter 12 says, be
\nnot conformed to this world but <\/p>\n
453
\n00:29:40,100 –> 00:29:44,300
\nbe transformed into had it by
\nthe renewing of your mind. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:45,000 –> 00:29:47,600
\nNow, this little caterpillar
\ntalks to me and he says, Bob, <\/p>\n
455
\n00:29:47,600 –> 00:29:50,300
\nI’m going to fly someday.
\nThis is, you never make it. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:29:50,300 –> 00:29:55,300
\nYou’re too fat.
\nYeah, you can’t fly and he says <\/p>\n
457
\n00:29:55,300 –> 00:29:57,300
\nno, no, no.
\nYou don’t understand. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:29:57,600 –> 00:29:59,300
\nI’m going to go through
\nmetamorphosis. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:29:59,300 –> 00:30:03,100
\nI’m going to go into a cocoon,
\nand I’m going to come out a <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:03,100 –> 00:30:07,900
\nbeautiful butterfly.
\nAnd you would never believe <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:11,500
\nthis, if you didn’t already know
\nit, that little green <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:11,500 –> 00:30:15,500
\ncaterpillars, turn into
\nbeautiful butterflies. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:16,600 –> 00:30:20,800
\nAnd that’s what Paul is talking
\nabout, in Romans 12. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:21,400 –> 00:30:27,700
\nHe says, I want you to change as
\nmuch as a caterpillar changes <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:27,900 –> 00:30:31,700
\nwhen it becomes a butterfly and
\nI’ll tell you how to do it. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:31,800 –> 00:30:36,200
\nHe doesn’t just say, do it
\nwithout telling us how You do <\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:42,800
\nit, by the way, you think by the
\nrenewing of your mind. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:30:43,700 –> 00:30:48,700
\nAnd so what you think about is
\nreally important, are you <\/p>\n
469
\n00:30:48,700 –> 00:30:51,900
\nthinking about the right things
\nor are you letting the world <\/p>\n
470
\n00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:55,900
\nsqueeze you down into its mold
\nand telling you, how you should <\/p>\n
471
\n00:30:55,900 –> 00:31:00,500
\nthink?
\nSo this life metaphor you that <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:00,500 –> 00:31:04,500
\nyou have, I want you to come up
\nwith a couple of words that <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:07,000
\ndescribe to you.
\nNow, one of my business <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:07,000 –> 00:31:11,500
\nassociates for many years, had a
\nlittle sign on his death desk <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:11,900 –> 00:31:15,400
\nand it had two letters.
\nH, A be a TT. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:16,600 –> 00:31:21,100
\nI guess you would say that habit
\nnot spelling, habit Moon and it <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:21,100 –> 00:31:28,000
\nstood for this have a ball all
\nthe time and he was a happy guy <\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,000
\nbut that’s not a very good life
\nmetaphor just have a ball on the<\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:36,500
\ntime but that was his We’re
\ntrying to find out what is <\/p>\n
480
\n00:31:36,500 –> 00:31:38,700
\nyours.
\nNow, the Bible is going to give <\/p>\n
481
\n00:31:38,700 –> 00:31:40,300
\nus some metaphors.
\nWe’re going to talk about three <\/p>\n
482
\n00:31:41,200 –> 00:31:44,000
\nand see if one of these can be
\nyours. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:50,400
\nThey’re called the three, TS.
\nLife is a test. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:31:51,400 –> 00:31:54,900
\nWhat you like me to votes tests
\nare being tested and you are <\/p>\n
485
\n00:31:54,900 –> 00:31:57,500
\nbeing tempted, your just hurdles
\nand your lane to jump. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:31:58,400 –> 00:32:03,800
\nAnother one life is a trust.
\nAnd the third one, which we’ll <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:07,100
\ntalk about tomorrow.
\nGod willing is life is a <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:07,100 –> 00:32:10,100
\ntemporary assignment.
\nSo we’re going to look at the <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:10,100 –> 00:32:15,100
\nfirst two of those.
\nThis evening life is a test and <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:21,400
\nlife is a trust.
\nNow, God does test us words like<\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:26,400
\ntrials, Temptations?
\nRefining testing, they worker <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:26,600 –> 00:32:30,000
\nhundreds of times in the Bible.
\nWe’re told that God tested <\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:33,300
\nAbraham by asking him to offer
\nup his Isaac. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:34,500 –> 00:32:36,400
\nGod tested Jacob when he had to
\nwork. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:36,600 –> 00:32:40,600
\nAnother seven years for Rachel.
\nGod tested Joseph. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:44,900
\nVery severely and he came
\nthrough with flying colors Adam <\/p>\n
497
\n00:32:44,900 –> 00:32:48,800
\nand Eve failed their test.
\nThe Garden of Eden, David <\/p>\n
498
\n00:32:48,800 –> 00:32:50,500
\nfailed.
\nSome of his test. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:32:51,400 –> 00:32:55,600
\nWe have examples of the faithful
\npassing their tests such as Ruth<\/p>\n
500
\n00:32:55,700 –> 00:32:58,400
\nand gesturing.
\nDaniel. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:05,600
\nCharacter is both developed and
\nrevealed by Tess and you need <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:08,300
\nmight as well recognize affect
\nyour life. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:09,300 –> 00:33:14,000
\nIs a test.
\nWe’re always being tested by God<\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:14,200 –> 00:33:18,700
\nand he’s watching to see how you
\nrespond to his test. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:18,700 –> 00:33:21,000
\nAnd we ought not to be
\ncomplaining when we are testing.<\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:21,600 –> 00:33:23,800
\nThere was one student in a high
\nschool. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:23,800 –> 00:33:26,300
\nHe said, we this teacher of
\nhours. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:35,300
\nShe gives us a surprise test
\nevery Friday Now, if you get it <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:35,300 –> 00:33:37,900
\nevery Friday, how is it a
\nsurprise? <\/p>\n
510
\n00:33:39,500 –> 00:33:47,200
\nBut you know, that in school you
\nare tested in order to go to <\/p>\n
511
\n00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:50,300
\nwork in, many it I have to have
\na number of licenses. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:33:50,600 –> 00:33:53,500
\nI’ve had to take all kinds of
\nexams to get them. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:58,400
\nI’m now so old and I’ve been an
\ninsurance agent so many years <\/p>\n
514
\n00:33:58,400 –> 00:34:00,500
\nthat I’m grandfathered and I
\ndon’t have to even study <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:00,500 –> 00:34:02,500
\nanymore.
\nI also don’t know anything. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:05,900
\nI tell them at work, you know,
\nit’s not that I don’t know <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:05,900 –> 00:34:07,900
\nanything.
\nEverything I know is now wrong <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:08,900 –> 00:34:10,900
\nbecause Our business keeps
\nchanging. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:15,400
\nBut we all of our employees
\nexcept me every year, have to <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:20,000
\nput in certain number of hours,
\nto keep their license. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:23,100
\nInteresting.
\nSo we’re doctors, you can’t just<\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:23,100 –> 00:34:24,800
\nbecome a doctor, you have can’t
\nbecome a law. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:24,800 –> 00:34:27,300
\nYou have to pass the bar, and
\nI’m not telling bar that kind of<\/p>\n
524
\n00:34:27,300 –> 00:34:36,000
\nbar the bar, the bar exam.
\nBut so life has tests and God <\/p>\n
525
\n00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:41,500
\ntests us.
\nGod actually left King Hezekiah <\/p>\n
526
\n00:34:41,500 –> 00:34:44,000
\non his own to testing.
\nWe were told this so second <\/p>\n
527
\n00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:48,199
\nChronicle, 32:31 went invoices
\nwere set by the rulers of <\/p>\n
528
\n00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:53,100
\nBabylon to ask Hezekiah about
\nthe miraculous sign that he had <\/p>\n
529
\n00:34:53,500 –> 00:34:55,300
\nhad a that had occurred in the
\nland. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:03,600
\nGod left Hezekiah to test him
\nand to know everything that was <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:07,200
\nin his heart.
\nSadly, we know that Hezekiah <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:10,500
\nfailed that test his work.
\nI had enjoyed a very close <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:10,500 –> 00:35:14,000
\nrelationship to God and a
\ncrucial point in his life, God <\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:14,000 –> 00:35:18,300
\nleft him to test him and to
\nreveal a weakness. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:18,700 –> 00:35:23,100
\nHe was forgiven for it.
\nYou’ve been tested, sometimes we<\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:23,100 –> 00:35:26,000
\npass our tests and sometimes we
\nfail. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:27,400 –> 00:35:30,800
\nBut if you just realize that
\nlife is a test, you’re not so <\/p>\n
538
\n00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:33,200
\nupset about you.
\nYou accept it as a fact. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:38,000
\nYeah, I’m being tested and God
\nis watching to see how I react <\/p>\n
540
\n00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:43,000
\nthem to the test.
\nGod allows our adversaries to <\/p>\n
541
\n00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:45,200
\nchallenge us to see how we
\nreact. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:45,800 –> 00:35:49,200
\nWe must overcome as Jesus had
\ntold us to. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:55,500
\nSo, testing is part of life.
\nDon’t consider it a terrible <\/p>\n
544
\n00:35:55,500 –> 00:35:59,700
\ntrial.
\nWhen Nehemiah God wanted <\/p>\n
545
\n00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:02,600
\nNehemiah to build a wall around
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:03,500 –> 00:36:07,200
\nHe blessed him and had these
\nKing bless him and give him all <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:07,200 –> 00:36:09,900
\nthe provisions.
\nHe needed, and he goes to build <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:09,900 –> 00:36:12,000
\nthis wall and God.
\nWanting to build it. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:16,400
\nAnd what did God allow?
\nHe large sample and to buy it <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:20,100
\nand give him and all these
\npeople to give him all kinds of <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:20,100 –> 00:36:24,300
\ntrouble.
\nYou my was doing what God <\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:28,800
\nwanted.
\nIn still, God testing him. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:29,700 –> 00:36:32,300
\nYou trying to do what God wants
\nyou to do is. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:34,400
\nWell, I’m trying to do your will
\nGod. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:39,500
\nWhy am I having this problem?
\nGod is preparing you by the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:40,600
\ntest.
\nHe gives you. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:43,900
\nSo that could be your life
\nmetaphor. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:47,300
\nMy life is a test and I’m going
\nto pass it. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:36:48,100 –> 00:36:51,100
\nI can do all things through
\nChrist, who strengthens me and <\/p>\n
560
\n00:36:51,100 –> 00:36:56,200
\nso that’s one life metaphor that
\ncould be yours but About another<\/p>\n
561
\n00:36:56,200 –> 00:37:01,300
\none and the second one is life.
\nIs a trust. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:02,900 –> 00:37:08,000
\nAnd that’s true too.
\nWe are stewards of what God has <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,900
\ngiven us.
\nBut God is the owner of <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:10,900 –> 00:37:12,600
\neverything.
\nIt’s in him with that we live <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:16,600
\nand move and have our being
\nPsalm 24, says the Earth is the <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:16,600 –> 00:37:21,000
\nLord’s and everything in it.
\nThe world and all who live by <\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:21,000 –> 00:37:25,300
\nit.
\nWe never really own anything in <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:25,300 –> 00:37:26,800
\nour brief.
\nStay on Earth. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:35,100
\nGod loans, the Earth to us to
\nlive in for a little while and <\/p>\n
570
\n00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:37,200
\nit’s God’s Property.
\nHe was his before. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:41,800
\nWe were born and it will be his
\nwhen we were long gone when God <\/p>\n
572
\n00:37:41,800 –> 00:37:44,000
\ncreated Adam and Eve, he
\nentrusted the care of his <\/p>\n
573
\n00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:47,300
\ncreation to them, he pointing
\nthose Trustees of his property. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:49,800
\nThe Garden of Eden did not
\nbelong to Adam and Eve. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:37:50,100 –> 00:37:52,900
\nThey were put there to, to be in
\ncharge of it and to keep it. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,400
\nThe Lord God took the man and
\nthe woman and put them in the <\/p>\n
577
\n00:37:56,400 –> 00:37:58,800
\nGarden of Eden, to work it.
\nAnd Care for it. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:01,400
\nNow, the point is, I’ve talked
\nabout Pride. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:01,400 –> 00:38:03,200
\nWell, you can’t be puffed up
\nabout something. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:06,300
\nSomeone just given you.
\nAnd so we read in First <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:06,300 –> 00:38:08,800
\nCorinthians, the reading of what
\nwe had is already section. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:11,500
\nWho makes you different from
\nanyone else. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:14,300
\nWhat do you have that?
\nYou did not receive if you did <\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:14,300 –> 00:38:16,100
\nreceive it.
\nWhy do you boast is though? <\/p>\n
585
\n00:38:16,100 –> 00:38:21,500
\nYou did not You see, you can’t
\nbe proud of your abilities. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:38:22,600 –> 00:38:26,900
\nA person who can sing can give
\npraise and glory to God, there <\/p>\n
587
\n00:38:26,900 –> 00:38:31,600
\nis a lot of music in me.
\nI know this to be a fact because<\/p>\n
588
\n00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:38,300
\nnone of us ever got now.
\nBut I sit at the feet of people <\/p>\n
589
\n00:38:38,300 –> 00:38:42,400
\nwho are able to create music
\nwith this on the piano or violin<\/p>\n
590
\n00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:45,100
\nor voice.
\nAnd that’s not me. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:48,400 –> 00:38:50,400
\nI’m not proud of that night
\nhere, you know? <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:50,400 –> 00:38:54,400
\nI’m but it’s just a fact.
\nSo if you’ve got it then use it <\/p>\n
593
\n00:38:54,400 –> 00:38:57,100
\nto the good if you don’t have
\nit, well then find something you<\/p>\n
594
\n00:38:57,100 –> 00:38:58,400
\ncan do.
\nNow, what? <\/p>\n
595
\n00:38:58,400 –> 00:39:01,400
\nI’ll share a little story with
\nyou that happened in a collision<\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:03,100 –> 00:39:05,400
\nYou have visiting speakers.
\nI’m comes to come to your <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:10,900
\npleasure and this Ecclesia had a
\nvisiting speaker, and he was <\/p>\n
598
\n00:39:10,900 –> 00:39:15,600
\ngiving a talk along these lines.
\nNow, one of the leading members <\/p>\n
599
\n00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:19,500
\nof this Ecclesia was a fairly
\nwell-to-do farmer. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:39:20,100 –> 00:39:24,600
\nHe had a beautiful spread, his
\nbarns were an apple pie order. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:39:24,600 –> 00:39:27,300
\nI mean, they were painted red,
\nand they look good. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:29,600
\nAnd his cattle would jump,
\nwell-fed. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:31,900
\nAnd these crops were growing,
\nwell, he kept him. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:35,200
\nShe’s in rehab.
\nAnd this christadelphians <\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:39,600
\nbrother comes to his meeting,
\nand he’s explaining that nothing<\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:39,600 –> 00:39:43,100
\nthat you have was really yours.
\nIt’s just being lent to you by <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:43,100 –> 00:39:47,500
\nGod, just for you to use.
\nThis didn’t sit too well with <\/p>\n
608
\n00:39:47,500 –> 00:39:50,900
\nthis christadelphians besides
\nthat, he was going to have him <\/p>\n
609
\n00:39:50,900 –> 00:39:55,100
\nfor dinner, that night that day.
\nSo, after the meeting was over, <\/p>\n
610
\n00:39:55,100 –> 00:39:59,000
\nhe takes him back to his farm
\nand his wife serves, this <\/p>\n
611
\n00:39:59,000 –> 00:40:03,500
\nvisiting speaker, a beautiful
\nhome cook Cooked Farm meal. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:40:03,500 –> 00:40:05,100
\nThat was really good.
\nYou know. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:40:05,700 –> 00:40:08,100
\nAnd after the dinner was over
\nthe farmer says to the <\/p>\n
614
\n00:40:08,100 –> 00:40:10,800
\nchristadelphians and would you
\nlike to have a tour of my <\/p>\n
615
\n00:40:10,800 –> 00:40:12,400
\nspread?
\nI’d like to show you around my <\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:14,800
\nplace.
\nYou know, I’d enjoy that fine. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:40:15,200 –> 00:40:17,500
\nSo we took him around and he
\nsaid, look at those boy. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:19,700
\nLook at those can look at those
\nfields. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:19,700 –> 00:40:21,300
\nLook at that Machinery.
\nHe’s a. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:21,700 –> 00:40:24,300
\nWho do you think belongs owned
\nall this stuff? <\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:27,000 –> 00:40:30,700
\nChristadelphians brother who had
\ngiven the talk said, do you mind<\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:30,700 –> 00:40:33,300
\nasking me that question and
\nanother 100 years? <\/p>\n
623
\n00:40:36,700 –> 00:40:40,600
\nIt won’t be his in.
\nIt’s only been loaned to you. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:44,200
\nWhat are you doing with what God
\nis letting you use? <\/p>\n
625
\n00:40:44,900 –> 00:40:49,700
\nSo when somebody loans, you
\nsomething you should take more <\/p>\n
626
\n00:40:49,700 –> 00:40:52,400
\ncare of it.
\nI know there’s someone loans, me<\/p>\n
627
\n00:40:52,400 –> 00:40:55,800
\ntheir car, I sure don’t want to
\nput a dent in it, you know, I <\/p>\n
628
\n00:40:55,800 –> 00:40:57,700
\nwant to return that car.
\nI feel terrible. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:40:57,700 –> 00:41:06,600
\nIf I borrowed a car and then,
\nyou know, messed it up. so, This<\/p>\n
630
\n00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:10,800
\nis the right attitude when
\nsomeone’s been loaned to you you<\/p>\n
631
\n00:41:10,800 –> 00:41:16,200
\nthen take care of it and if you
\ncan just get the attitude that <\/p>\n
632
\n00:41:16,200 –> 00:41:18,900
\neverything you have has been
\nloaned to you by God and it <\/p>\n
633
\n00:41:18,900 –> 00:41:20,900
\ndoesn’t really isn’t really
\nyours. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:23,800
\nYou will have a different
\nattitude than it. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:23,900 –> 00:41:27,200
\nThis is my car.
\nThis is my bar, this is my farm <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:27,200 –> 00:41:33,300
\nis whatever it is when Elijah
\nwas helping the prophets. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:36,000
\nBuild a larger meeting room.
\nOne of them was cutting down a <\/p>\n
638
\n00:41:36,008 –> 00:41:39,800
\ntree in the ax, head fell into
\nthe water and you do my Lord he <\/p>\n
639
\n00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:44,000
\nsaid it was borrowed.
\nThat was a right attitude. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:47,000
\nHe had borrowed somebody else’s
\nacts and now he dropped it in <\/p>\n
641
\n00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:50,300
\nthe water.
\nWell, you see you should care <\/p>\n
642
\n00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:55,700
\nabout other people’s things that
\nyou’ve borrowed and so Think <\/p>\n
643
\n00:41:55,700 –> 00:41:59,500
\nabout what you have at your
\nhouse that you think is yours. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:03,300
\nIt really isn’t yours?
\nNo, that’s my car. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:03,300 –> 00:42:08,600
\nWell, you may be paid for but
\nGod’s letting you have that car <\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:09,300 –> 00:42:13,300
\nand you want to use it for the
\nLord, you make sure your car <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:13,300 –> 00:42:16,500
\ngoes to the right places, does
\nit pick up other people who <\/p>\n
648
\n00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:18,400
\ndon’t have cars and get them to
\nmeeting? <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:23,600
\nHow anxious are you?
\nAnd using the things God is low <\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:23,600 –> 00:42:26,400
\nand you too.
\nOf others. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:28,900 –> 00:42:31,300
\nDo you open your home to other
\npeople? <\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:31,700 –> 00:42:34,300
\nInvite others to come in and
\nshare a meal? <\/p>\n
653
\n00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:36,300
\nAs the farmer had done little
\nbit? <\/p>\n
654
\n00:42:36,300 –> 00:42:40,700
\nReluctantly, after you’d heard
\nthe exhortation, but who do you <\/p>\n
655
\n00:42:40,700 –> 00:42:43,300
\ninvite to your house and you say
\nnow? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:42:43,300 –> 00:42:47,100
\nWait, wait, just a minute.
\nThis is my house. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:50,500
\nAnd that’s my food.
\nI’m feeling you feel him. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:55,700
\nI think it’s my business who I
\ninvite to my house and Jesus is,<\/p>\n
659
\n00:42:55,700 –> 00:43:02,100
\nno, I made it my business who
\nyou invite to your house That’s <\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:02,100 –> 00:43:06,300
\nnot really your home. guys,
\nletting you use it for a few <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:06,300 –> 00:43:09,800
\nyears but it doesn’t really
\nbelong to you even if it’s paid <\/p>\n
662
\n00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:17,300
\nfor Jesus makes Things that are
\neveryday things in your life. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:20,500
\nHis personal business.
\nYou know, these verses I’m not <\/p>\n
664
\n00:43:20,500 –> 00:43:24,400
\nreminding, you of some of you
\nalready know, Jesus said to his <\/p>\n
665
\n00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:27,700
\nholes when he was invited, when
\nyou give a luncheon or you have <\/p>\n
666
\n00:43:27,700 –> 00:43:31,700
\na dinner, do not invite your
\nfriends, your brothers, or <\/p>\n
667
\n00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:36,700
\nrelatives, or your evil rich,
\nNeighbors, Tell you why. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:36,700 –> 00:43:39,200
\nIf you do, they’ll invite you
\nback and you’ll be repaid. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:43:39,700 –> 00:43:42,000
\nI’ll tell you who you have at
\nyour house. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:43:42,700 –> 00:43:46,300
\nWhen you give a banquet, you
\ninvite the poor, you invite the <\/p>\n
671
\n00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:49,100
\ncrippled, you invite the blame,
\ninvite the blind P. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:43:49,200 –> 00:43:51,900
\nYou ever watch a blind person,
\neats kind of messy? <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:51,900 –> 00:43:54,500
\nIt sometimes gets it all over
\nthe place because they can’t <\/p>\n
674
\n00:43:54,500 –> 00:43:56,600
\nsee, you know, I don’t want to
\nhave him. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:43:56,600 –> 00:43:59,400
\nHe’s, you know, bothers me to
\nsee him read. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:06,600
\nJesus says, forget about
\nyourself you do what’s right? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:07,300 –> 00:44:12,300
\nAnd then you will be blessed.
\nBecause those that you invite <\/p>\n
678
\n00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:16,100
\nthe crippled, the lame, the
\nblind, the poor, they can’t <\/p>\n
679
\n00:44:16,100 –> 00:44:18,300
\ninvite you back.
\nThey don’t have a place to <\/p>\n
680
\n00:44:18,300 –> 00:44:22,900
\ninvite you to.
\nYou will be repaid at the <\/p>\n
681
\n00:44:22,900 –> 00:44:28,800
\nresurrection of the just So the
\nLord Jesus Christ is actually <\/p>\n
682
\n00:44:28,800 –> 00:44:33,100
\ninterested in who you invite to
\nyour house. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:38,500
\nOther people in your pleasure
\nthat have never been in your <\/p>\n
684
\n00:44:38,500 –> 00:44:40,900
\nhouse.
\nI mean, there’s some people are <\/p>\n
685
\n00:44:40,900 –> 00:44:43,600
\nin your house maybe every week
\ncertain time, that’s family. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:44:43,600 –> 00:44:46,000
\nThey pop it in.
\nAll kinds of times you you enjoy<\/p>\n
687
\n00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:48,900
\nmeals with him.
\nBut is there an older sister and<\/p>\n
688
\n00:44:48,900 –> 00:44:53,500
\nolder brother?
\nSomebody that just has a room, <\/p>\n
689
\n00:44:53,900 –> 00:44:57,100
\nyou invite them to your house.
\nWell their death, they can’t <\/p>\n
690
\n00:44:57,100 –> 00:44:59,200
\nhear anything as it.
\nWe have a sister that can’t hear<\/p>\n
691
\n00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,100
\nanything.
\nAnd we pick her up on Sunday <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:02,100 –> 00:45:04,200
\nmorning and take her to meeting
\nand we take her. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:04,300 –> 00:45:08,300
\nShe He never says, thank you,
\nmuch just she just just specs. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:45:08,300 –> 00:45:12,500
\nIt doesn’t matter.
\nIf you’re not looking for praise<\/p>\n
695
\n00:45:12,500 –> 00:45:15,400
\non this side, the kingdom.
\nYou’re trying to do what’s <\/p>\n
696
\n00:45:15,400 –> 00:45:17,700
\nright?
\nDo you put yourself out for <\/p>\n
697
\n00:45:17,700 –> 00:45:22,300
\nother people?
\nIt’s required that those who <\/p>\n
698
\n00:45:22,300 –> 00:45:24,300
\nhave been given a trust must
\nprove. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:45:24,300 –> 00:45:27,500
\nFaithful.
\nYou have been given a trust. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:45:28,400 –> 00:45:30,900
\nIf you have a home, it’s been
\nloaned to you to use. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:45:30,900 –> 00:45:34,400
\nIf you have a car, it’s been
\nloaned to you by God, to use <\/p>\n
702
\n00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:38,900
\nanything you possess.
\nBut are you using these <\/p>\n
703
\n00:45:38,900 –> 00:45:43,500
\npossessions that you have to
\nsatisfy yourself? <\/p>\n
704
\n00:45:44,100 –> 00:45:47,100
\nOr are you using them to help
\nothers? <\/p>\n
705
\n00:45:47,100 –> 00:45:53,200
\nBecause God is watching?
\nHe is a test and it is at rest. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:45:54,700 –> 00:46:00,300
\nThe Bible is full of examples of
\ntrust, you know, The Parables <\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:00,300 –> 00:46:04,300
\nthat Jesus told about the pounds
\nand the tell each Steward was <\/p>\n
708
\n00:46:04,300 –> 00:46:08,600
\ngiven five talents 10 talents to
\ntell us wonder, they wasn’t <\/p>\n
709
\n00:46:08,600 –> 00:46:11,200
\ntheirs.
\nThey were to occupy and increase<\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:11,200 –> 00:46:14,500
\nit while Jesus was gone.
\nNow, you have been given a <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:14,508 –> 00:46:17,100
\ntalent talents.
\nI’ve had christadelphians. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:17,100 –> 00:46:18,900
\nMm.
\nWell, I do you don’t have any <\/p>\n
713
\n00:46:18,900 –> 00:46:22,000
\nTalent.
\nThere is no such thing as a <\/p>\n
714
\n00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:26,100
\nno-talent christadelphians.
\nGod did not make a mistake when <\/p>\n
715
\n00:46:26,100 –> 00:46:30,600
\nhe made you you make mistakes
\nbut you are not a mistake. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:46:31,600 –> 00:46:36,500
\nAnd there are things you can do
\nfor the Lord question is, are <\/p>\n
717
\n00:46:36,500 –> 00:46:40,100
\nyou doing them?
\nAre you using your time? <\/p>\n
718
\n00:46:40,600 –> 00:46:44,100
\nYour possessions to give glory
\nand honor to God? <\/p>\n
719
\n00:46:44,300 –> 00:46:47,300
\nOr you say boy that.
\nI got this Lazy Boy, chair and I<\/p>\n
720
\n00:46:47,308 –> 00:46:49,000
\njust love to sleep in this
\nchair, you know. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:46:49,000 –> 00:46:52,900
\nAnd are you saying to some more
\nsister coming over and sitting <\/p>\n
722
\n00:46:52,900 –> 00:46:55,800
\nin my chair, have you ever gone
\nto a house? <\/p>\n
723
\n00:46:55,800 –> 00:47:01,000
\nWhere the man of the house, has
\nhis chair and nobody sits in <\/p>\n
724
\n00:47:01,000 –> 00:47:05,000
\nthat?
\nBut that man of the house, I <\/p>\n
725
\n00:47:05,008 –> 00:47:10,900
\nmean see this is funny because
\nit’s true. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:47:12,400 –> 00:47:18,100
\nWe ought to be sharing, whatever
\nwe have with anybody that we <\/p>\n
727
\n00:47:18,100 –> 00:47:20,500
\nwanted.
\nWhen I go to somebody’s house, I<\/p>\n
728
\n00:47:20,500 –> 00:47:23,000
\nkind of wait to see just
\nbecause, you know, I do this <\/p>\n
729
\n00:47:23,000 –> 00:47:27,400
\nwhen I go to a meeting, you
\nknow, today is different, but I <\/p>\n
730
\n00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:29,500
\ngrew as a guest speaker to
\nanother meeting. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:47:29,700 –> 00:47:35,600
\nAnd you know, you you don’t know
\nwhere to sit, that’s my seat. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:39,700
\nAnd I get up with, you know,
\nmove backwards. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:47:40,200 –> 00:47:42,100
\nOh, Jesus said don’t take the
\nhigh esteem but I’m not. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:48,000
\nIt was even a low C, but you
\nsee, we seem to think we possess<\/p>\n
735
\n00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:50,200
\nit even a particular seat in the
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:55,800
\nThat’s where we sit.
\nAnd so I if your guests and you <\/p>\n
737
\n00:47:55,800 –> 00:47:59,000
\ndon’t know it, it’s kind of hold
\nback and let them have theirs, <\/p>\n
738
\n00:47:59,600 –> 00:48:03,100
\nbut on the other hand, we ought
\nnot be possessive. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:06,800
\nEven a seat in the meeting.
\nCertainly not in our home, <\/p>\n
740
\n00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:12,400
\ncertainly not at our table, so
\nbe sure that you do invite to <\/p>\n
741
\n00:48:12,400 –> 00:48:14,800
\ntake it.
\nWhen you get home, take your <\/p>\n
742
\n00:48:14,800 –> 00:48:19,300
\nkeys, your address in this town,
\njust go down the names and pick <\/p>\n
743
\n00:48:19,300 –> 00:48:23,100
\nout people.
\nOn your please address list that<\/p>\n
744
\n00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:25,800
\nyou have never invited to a
\nmeal. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:48:28,000 –> 00:48:34,700
\nAnd then invite him.
\nAnd they will be thrilled and <\/p>\n
746
\n00:48:34,700 –> 00:48:39,300
\nyou will be serving God, you
\nwill be doing what Jesus said, <\/p>\n
747
\n00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:44,000
\nour Ecclesia got up of us.
\nWe try new things and trying to <\/p>\n
748
\n00:48:44,008 –> 00:48:46,100
\nget people to think about each
\nother. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:48:46,600 –> 00:48:50,300
\nAnd so we got up a list of the
\npeople that widows and the <\/p>\n
750
\n00:48:50,300 –> 00:48:53,500
\npeople who didn’t have much.
\nAnd then we got people who were <\/p>\n
751
\n00:48:53,500 –> 00:48:58,200
\nhospitable and we assign a
\nperson to a family each month. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:48:58,500 –> 00:49:00,600
\nSo there’s a whole list of
\npeople who were inviting a home.<\/p>\n
753
\n00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:03,600
\nYour people and some of these
\nall sisters, you know, I didn’t <\/p>\n
754
\n00:49:03,600 –> 00:49:06,800
\nfind the brother Jo’s house.
\nI’ve never been in his house and<\/p>\n
755
\n00:49:06,808 –> 00:49:11,000
\nthey were thrilled and brother,
\nGeorge actually enjoyed her. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:14,500
\nYou know, I mean, sometimes, we
\nneed a little bit of prompting <\/p>\n
757
\n00:49:14,700 –> 00:49:16,800
\nto do something, we ought to
\njust be doing. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:20,400
\nSo if I have tweaking your
\nconscience, I don’t apologize. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:26,300
\nFor is the shoe fits wear it.
\nBut God and Jesus are taking <\/p>\n
760
\n00:49:26,600 –> 00:49:32,100
\ninto account, your personal
\nactions, even who you have to <\/p>\n
761
\n00:49:32,100 –> 00:49:36,000
\nyour home for food and God is
\nwatching. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:49:37,100 –> 00:49:42,200
\nAnd God is watching to see how
\nyou treat, the things he has <\/p>\n
763
\n00:49:42,200 –> 00:49:45,500
\nloaned to you.
\nAnd so in all those Parables, <\/p>\n
764
\n00:49:45,600 –> 00:49:49,300
\nthey time came when they had to
\naccount for whether they had <\/p>\n
765
\n00:49:49,300 –> 00:49:52,800
\nincreased that Talent or they
\nhad squandered her, you know, <\/p>\n
766
\n00:49:52,800 –> 00:49:56,100
\nthe man who There it is Talent.
\nHe was not a thief. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:49:57,000 –> 00:50:00,500
\nHe did not abscond with the
\nLord’s money when the Lord came <\/p>\n
768
\n00:50:00,500 –> 00:50:02,600
\nback he dug it up.
\nIs so here it is he I know <\/p>\n
769
\n00:50:02,600 –> 00:50:05,500
\nyou’re a hard man, I’m giving
\nyou back just what you gave me. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:09,800
\nIf you give back to God, just
\nwhat he gave you. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:50:12,100 –> 00:50:16,200
\nThe answer was condemnation,
\nyou’ve got to be increasing, <\/p>\n
772
\n00:50:16,200 –> 00:50:21,600
\nwhat God gave you and so how are
\nyou using your money? <\/p>\n
773
\n00:50:23,200 –> 00:50:26,800
\nIn the truth.
\nAre you giving we’re not <\/p>\n
774
\n00:50:26,800 –> 00:50:30,700
\ncommanded to tithe and sow whole
\nmost Personnel. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:50:30,700 –> 00:50:35,700
\nViens don’t But you know what?
\nHappened in the mission field. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:50:36,800 –> 00:50:39,800
\nIf every christadelphians and
\nyour Collegiate, just simply <\/p>\n
777
\n00:50:40,000 –> 00:50:44,300
\ngave ten percent, as least 90%
\nfor you. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:50:45,300 –> 00:50:49,900
\nYou can’t outgive God.
\nI don’t think we should tell <\/p>\n
779
\n00:50:49,900 –> 00:50:54,600
\nanybody else what to do.
\nBecause Paul says, God loves a <\/p>\n
780
\n00:50:54,800 –> 00:50:59,100
\ncheerful Giver in our Ecclesia.
\nWe do not pass a bag. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:02,200
\nWe do not have a collection at
\nall. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:51:03,400 –> 00:51:06,200
\nWe feel, if we have to stick a
\nbag on your nose for you to put <\/p>\n
783
\n00:51:06,200 –> 00:51:08,800
\nsomething in it, then you’re not
\nputting anything in it. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:51:10,100 –> 00:51:13,500
\nSo we have a box at the back and
\nyou go back there and put your <\/p>\n
785
\n00:51:13,500 –> 00:51:16,300
\nown stuff in it.
\nAnd when we started that, they <\/p>\n
786
\n00:51:16,300 –> 00:51:20,800
\nsaid never work will go broke.
\nWe never have. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:51:22,900 –> 00:51:27,800
\nGod loves a cheerful Giver e of
\nyour time of your money of your <\/p>\n
788
\n00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:36,300
\nhome of your car.
\nSo, Jesus said, if you have not <\/p>\n
789
\n00:51:36,300 –> 00:51:40,800
\nbeen trustworthy in handling
\nworldly lap wealth, who’s going <\/p>\n
790
\n00:51:40,800 –> 00:51:46,000
\nto trust you with true riches,
\nif you’re using, whatever it is,<\/p>\n
791
\n00:51:46,000 –> 00:51:51,000
\nyou have for your benefit and
\nnot for other people’s benefit, <\/p>\n
792
\n00:51:51,900 –> 00:51:56,400
\nyou’re being selfish instead of
\nself less. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:51:57,300 –> 00:52:01,400
\nAnd so our life on the truth it
\nis a trust. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:08,000
\nAnd God is trusting you to give
\nwhat he’s given you and share it<\/p>\n
795
\n00:52:08,000 –> 00:52:14,500
\nwith others. and so, That’s our
\nthird class. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:52:15,300 –> 00:52:19,000
\nWe’re coming to the end of it
\nand I hope I haven’t worn you <\/p>\n
797
\n00:52:19,000 –> 00:52:23,500
\nout this evening.
\nBut everyone who has been given <\/p>\n
798
\n00:52:23,500 –> 00:52:26,600
\nmuch.
\nMuch will be demanded. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:52:27,100 –> 00:52:30,200
\nEveryone who has been entrusted
\nwith much, much more will be <\/p>\n
800
\n00:52:30,200 –> 00:52:33,000
\nasked.
\nLife. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:52:34,200 –> 00:52:41,200
\nIs a test.
\nWork at passing the test except <\/p>\n
802
\n00:52:41,200 –> 00:52:45,500
\nthe fact that you are being
\ntested by God and that the <\/p>\n
803
\n00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:50,600
\nproblems you’re having or
\nallowed not caused always but <\/p>\n
804
\n00:52:50,600 –> 00:52:54,100
\nthat allowed by God and make
\nsure that you don’t complain <\/p>\n
805
\n00:52:54,100 –> 00:52:59,200
\nabout them and that you do your
\nbest to overcome them. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:53:00,500 –> 00:53:06,300
\nAnd then life is a trust.
\nGod has entrusted you with so <\/p>\n
807
\n00:53:06,300 –> 00:53:11,300
\nmuch.
\nHow generous are you with what <\/p>\n
808
\n00:53:11,300 –> 00:53:14,000
\nGod has given?
\nYou could you give a little bit <\/p>\n
809
\n00:53:14,000 –> 00:53:18,500
\nmore than you’re giving.
\nI’m not just talking about money<\/p>\n
810
\n00:53:18,600 –> 00:53:22,100
\nbut it does include money.
\nAbout your time. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:53:23,200 –> 00:53:26,400
\nWell, you know, I work hard,
\nwhen I get home from work. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:53:26,400 –> 00:53:29,900
\nI need my time to rest up.
\nWell, I know. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:53:29,900 –> 00:53:35,400
\nI can honor that, but somebody
\nelse is sitting at home alone, <\/p>\n
814
\n00:53:35,400 –> 00:53:41,700
\nLee and not hearing from you.
\nDo you call him? <\/p>\n
815
\n00:53:43,500 –> 00:53:47,500
\nDo you drop by to see them?
\nDo you send them occur? <\/p>\n
816
\n00:53:47,500 –> 00:53:48,900
\nWe got a thing going in our
\nCollision. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:53:48,900 –> 00:53:54,100
\nNow we started it just a few
\nweeks ago and we’ve given <\/p>\n
818
\n00:53:54,100 –> 00:53:58,000
\neverybody in the Ecclesia to
\naddress list and on the first <\/p>\n
819
\n00:53:58,500 –> 00:54:02,300
\nweek you were to contact the
\nperson right below your name. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:54:03,800 –> 00:54:07,500
\nSome kind of a contact, he
\ntalked to him on the phone, you <\/p>\n
821
\n00:54:07,500 –> 00:54:12,400
\nsent him a card or a letter, or
\nyou go see them and next week, <\/p>\n
822
\n00:54:12,400 –> 00:54:14,100
\nyou do number two in the next
\nweek. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:54:14,100 –> 00:54:15,400
\nYou do number three in next with
\nyou. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:54:15,400 –> 00:54:18,100
\nNumber four.
\nAnd we’re up to now about number<\/p>\n
825
\n00:54:18,100 –> 00:54:23,100
\n38, and we were mining Arc, Asia
\nevery month. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:54:23,400 –> 00:54:26,000
\nHave you made your every week?
\nAre you making your car? <\/p>\n
827
\n00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:30,700
\nIt’s, it’s such a simple thing.
\nSome people you do contact, but <\/p>\n
828
\n00:54:30,700 –> 00:54:32,000
\nthere are people in your
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:54:32,400 –> 00:54:34,200
\nWe have people that don’t Very
\noften. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:54:36,000 –> 00:54:39,200
\nYou remember them?
\nDo you send them a card? <\/p>\n
831
\n00:54:39,400 –> 00:54:43,700
\nTheir mother missed.
\nSee, we are our Brother’s Keeper<\/p>\n
832
\n00:54:44,100 –> 00:54:49,300
\nlife is at rest and God has
\ntrusting you to care about your <\/p>\n
833
\n00:54:49,300 –> 00:54:52,700
\nfellow brothers and sisters and
\ndoing nothing. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:54:54,700 –> 00:54:59,900
\nCan never be right.
\nSo, what is your life metaphor <\/p>\n
835
\n00:55:00,800 –> 00:55:02,800
\nand are you doing your best to
\nfulfill it? <\/p>\n
836
\n00:55:04,500 –> 00:55:09,300
\nLife is a test.
\nAnd life is a trust. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:55:10,400 –> 00:55:15,300
\nAnd God is testing you, and
\ntrusting you and brother and <\/p>\n
838
\n00:55:15,300 –> 00:55:18,400
\nsisters.
\nOur whole purpose for coming <\/p>\n
839
\n00:55:19,400 –> 00:55:23,700
\nfrom California here, which is
\njust a stir up your pure Minds <\/p>\n
840
\n00:55:23,700 –> 00:55:25,700
\nby waiver members to talk about
\nthings. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:55:25,700 –> 00:55:28,900
\nYou already knew, but might not
\nhave been doing as well. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:55:28,900 –> 00:55:33,100
\nAs you could, the biggest room
\nyou have in your house. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:55:34,700 –> 00:55:40,300
\nIs the room for improvement.
\nYou can all do better than <\/p>\n
844
\n00:55:40,300 –> 00:55:44,000
\nyou’re doing and that includes
\nme because when I point my <\/p>\n
845
\n00:55:44,000 –> 00:55:45,600
\nfinger at you three pointing at
\nme. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:55:45,900 –> 00:55:48,400
\nSo these are the kind of things
\nI need to remember. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:55:48,700 –> 00:55:51,200
\nSo Paul says, I beseech you, I
\nplead with you. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:55:52,200 –> 00:55:57,200
\nPresent your body a Living
\nSacrifice, holy and acceptable. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:55:57,200 –> 00:56:02,500
\nGod, don’t be conformed to this
\nworld but be transformed by the <\/p>\n
850
\n00:56:02,508 –> 00:56:06,400
\nrenewing of your mind.
\nThat you may prove what is that <\/p>\n
851
\n00:56:06,400 –> 00:56:11,000
\ngood and acceptable and perfect
\nwill of God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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