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\nthe topic he’s chosen, I don’t
\nknow what it’s about and I don’t<\/p>\n
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\nwant to ruin it, but I do want
\nto read Ecclesiastes 12 and <\/p>\n
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\nhopefully it’ll not ruin it.
\nThis is Ecclesiastes 12 from the<\/p>\n
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\nmessage.
\nA new version. <\/p>\n
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\nHonor and enjoy your creator
\nwhile you’re still young. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore the years, take their
\ntoll and your Vigor Wayans. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore your vision dims and the
\nworld blurs and the winter <\/p>\n
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\nyears, keep you close to the
\nfire. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd your old age, your body no
\nlonger serves you so well <\/p>\n
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\nmuscles slacking grip weakens
\nand Joints. <\/p>\n
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\nTiffin The shades are pulled
\ndown on your world. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t come and go at will
\nthings grind to a halt. <\/p>\n
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\nThe hum of the household Fades
\naway and your awaken Now by <\/p>\n
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\nBirdsong.
\nHikes to the mountains are a <\/p>\n
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\nthing of the past.
\nEven a stroll down, the road has<\/p>\n
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\nits terrors Your hair turns,
\nApple Blossom, white adorning a <\/p>\n
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\nfragile and impotent Matchstick
\nbody. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, you’re well on your way to
\nEternal rest while your friends <\/p>\n
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\nmake plans for your funeral.
\nLife lovely while it lasts is <\/p>\n
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\nsoon over Life.
\nAs We Know It Precious and <\/p>\n
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\nBeautiful ends, the body is put
\nback in the same ground. <\/p>\n
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\nIt came from It’s all smoke
\nnothing but smoke. <\/p>\n
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\nHope that’s not too depressing
\nDev but little bit of Truth bomb<\/p>\n
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\nfrom Solomon there.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve never asked Jeff to do
\nthat, reading, just so y’all <\/p>\n
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\nknow.
\nYou come from a couple of <\/p>\n
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\ngenerations.
\nYou come from a generation that <\/p>\n
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\nis referred to as the great
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
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\nMany of you gave birth to a
\nbrawling noisy, prosperous <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration called the Boomers
\nwho in turn. <\/p>\n
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\nGave birth to a generation
\ncalled Generation X. <\/p>\n
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\nYes somebody celebrating in the
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\nelse with him.
\nAnd that largely characterized <\/p>\n
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\nGeneration X.
\nGenerations have come <\/p>\n
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\ngenerations of God.
\nAnd the world in which we live <\/p>\n
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\ntoday old age is seen almost as
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
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\nThat one has to hide away in a
\ncorner has to hide away. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom has to pretend is not going
\nto happen, every one of us. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s all Western Society.
\nIn other societies. <\/p>\n
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\nOld age is revered, great
\nrespect is accorded to the <\/p>\n
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\nelderly.
\nThey are deferred to their views<\/p>\n
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\nare sought.
\nTheir point of view is still <\/p>\n
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\nsignificant and important.
\nThat you happen to be in a <\/p>\n
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\nwestern country where people
\nworship youth, Vigor strength, <\/p>\n
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\nand where old age is something
\nthat is well, it’s an <\/p>\n
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\ninconvenience of life.
\nBut that’s not the biblical way.<\/p>\n
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\nThere is a great power and old
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\nimportance.
\nThere’s a kind of Vitality that <\/p>\n
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\ncan continue in our older years.
\nIf we decide that this is what <\/p>\n
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\nwe want to be able to have How
\ndoes the World Experience old <\/p>\n
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\nage?
\nHow do we experience it in <\/p>\n
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\nreality?
\nWelders declining health and in <\/p>\n
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\nthat beautiful reading that Jeff
\nchose it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt really walked you through the
\ndecline. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean we don’t want to hear
\nthose things but that’s what <\/p>\n
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\nhappens to everyone of us.
\nIt was happening to you. <\/p>\n
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\nNow right now, you’re
\nexperiencing these things, we <\/p>\n
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\nget used to pain chronic
\nillness. <\/p>\n
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\nWe get used to our joints
\nhurting in the morning. <\/p>\n
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\nGetting out of bed in the
\nmorning is an adventure, isn’t <\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nRight? <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t find your slippers and
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\ncould make it to the hospital
\njust because of that. <\/p>\n
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\nYour bones ache.
\nIt’s hard to describe it to <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people because they don’t
\nget it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou live with pain is a constant
\ncompanion all the time? <\/p>\n
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\nThere is also the loneliness
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\nof life.
\nMany. <\/p>\n
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\nMany of the many of us have
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\nthat companion that we had
\nbeside us for so many years. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we know what, that that
\ndescent into being alone can <\/p>\n
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\nfeel like Just a terrible
\nfeeling of isolation. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is hard to describe hard
\nfor other people to understand. <\/p>\n
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\nDisappointments Galore.
\nAll the things you hoped would <\/p>\n
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\nbe.
\nNone of which came to fruition <\/p>\n
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\nmany of which are associated
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\nThe marriages.
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\nhappy family lives.
\nYou hope for them would be the <\/p>\n
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\ncase that many of you have found
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\nthough, they don’t realize it.
\nYou carry the burden of grief <\/p>\n
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\nthat they feel Almost as heavily
\nas they do. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel for your child?
\nWhen you look at that, 60 year <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s who you see? <\/p>\n
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\nand when you see your baby
\nhurting, you hurt deeply too. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ve learned about the
\ndisappointments in the struggles<\/p>\n
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\nof life that you didn’t know to
\nthe same degree in your youth. <\/p>\n
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\nYou understand to what
\nrestriction feels like everybody<\/p>\n
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\nPoor squirrel. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re part of the experience
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\nanxiety, what’s going to happen
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\nWhat other condition will?
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\nWhat’s going to take me away?
\nWill it be my heart? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd will it hurt a lot?
\nIt’ll be cancer. <\/p>\n
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\nWill it be diabetes?
\nWill it be dementia? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat it’s going to be that will
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\nBy the way, are indicative of
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\non our kids?
\nI don’t want to be a burden on <\/p>\n
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\nmy kids is something that is in
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\nI don’t want to be a burden.
\nOn my kids already have a <\/p>\n
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\ndifficulty as a mother with my
\ndaughter-in-law and the last <\/p>\n
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\nthing I want to have to be as
\ndepend on on her Goodwill and <\/p>\n
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\nkindness to me I know it’s a
\nhard one, isn’t it sister? <\/p>\n
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\nAren’t you glad it’s not Jeff up
\nhere right now because then I <\/p>\n
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\nknow your name so you know what?
\nI’m describing to you. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what, I’m describing to
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t want to become burdens
\nthat are presented by our kids. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re in Terror that we are
\ngoing to have to go there. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd our children don’t
\nunderstand it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the last vestiges of
\nIndependence that we have. <\/p>\n
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\nHave to almost be pried out of
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\nBeing able to take care of <\/p>\n
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\nwe leave the stove on and forget<\/p>\n
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\nwe left it on and there’s a
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
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\nOr we faint and were found in a
\nterrible state by a child that <\/p>\n
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\nhappens to come.
\nVisit us because we didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nanswer the phone.
\nSo that that decline of life as <\/p>\n
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\nit is experienced, then makes
\npeople begin to think I’m no <\/p>\n
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\nlonger relevant.
\nWhat do I have to offer? <\/p>\n
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\nIs there anything in me that I
\ncan say is the power of old age?<\/p>\n
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\nAnd then that uncertainty about
\nthe future which seems to be a <\/p>\n
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\nshorter and shorter period of
\ntime for every one of us. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, the way that the world
\nexperiences these things is <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s all they have.
\nBut we have God’s truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we recognize that whatever
\ncondition we be maybe in today. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is not the end of us.
\nIt might be the end of this <\/p>\n
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\nphase of Who We Are. but when
\nthe Lord returns, We will run <\/p>\n
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\nand not be weary.
\nWe’ll fly with the wings of <\/p>\n
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\neagles.
\nCan you imagine that? <\/p>\n
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\nYou won’t have to use a walker,
\nyou won’t have to use a cane. <\/p>\n
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\nYou won’t have to worry about
\nthat pain in your hip that you <\/p>\n
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\ncontinually few it’ll all be
\ngone. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’ll be able to do
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\nlove.
\nAnd with the sense of joy, we <\/p>\n
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\nhave some guidance for old age
\nthroughout scripture together <\/p>\n
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\nwith that lovely passage in
\nEcclesiastes, which we will talk<\/p>\n
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\nabout this week.
\nWe have guidance that Paul gives<\/p>\n
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\nto a young man who had a role to
\nplay in serving part of the <\/p>\n
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\nocclusal world.
\nHe says, look Titus. <\/p>\n
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\nAs for you teach what Accords
\nwith sound Doctrine, make sure <\/p>\n
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\nthat what you’re teaching is
\nRight teaching according to what<\/p>\n
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\nwe believe and the first thing I
\nwant you to reflect on is this <\/p>\n
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\nolder men.
\nWhat’s well, if this was written<\/p>\n
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\nfor an American Audience, by an
\nAmerican, wouldn’t it be the <\/p>\n
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\nyoung men first and the old man
\nin the old women last But that’s<\/p>\n
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\nnot how God sees it.
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\nin this way.
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\nSo you might think, well, what
\ncan an old man do in the <\/p>\n
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\nOther words sound the Greek.
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\nbrother have to be healthy in
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\nit, treasuring it, but that
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\nSo you might read this way
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\nand love.
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\nNow, for unhealthy, in any of
\nthose three, we lose the <\/p>\n
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\nNot nobody even tells me what’s <\/p>\n
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\nyears that I did it What God is
\ntelling you through Paul to <\/p>\n
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\nfeeling that were not important
\nanymore, we can become <\/p>\n
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\nFeeling isolated from them <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we talked about that word
\nagape and sometimes in a very <\/p>\n
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\nabout something.
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\nshaking his fist in your face, <\/p>\n
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\ndad, screaming, and cursing at
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\nAnd you think Well, you think
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\nThis is hard for me.
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\nthis moment in time.
\nBecause this is not naturally <\/p>\n
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\nwelling up inside of me, son.
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\nI’m going to make two love you.
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\nthe Lord.
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\nIt’s love the chooses to love.
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\nnaturally, or Wells up from us
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\nat your family and the extension<\/p>\n
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\non through thick and through
\nthin. the older women, likewise <\/p>\n
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\nSo they are as important as the
\nolder men, the older women <\/p>\n
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\nlikewise are to be reverent in
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\nThat would Reverend is
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\nIt would have understood that <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to be like in some of
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\nso God takes a word used in the
\nPagan world and he elevates it <\/p>\n
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\nto say and in my house and my
\nEcclesia, This is how I want the<\/p>\n
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\nold sisters to conduct
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\ntheir behavior.
\nNot slanderers, a Greek word <\/p>\n
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\nThere is Diablo Lloyd. <\/p>\n
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\nRight, at the diabolic activity
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\nit.
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\nor slaves?
\nToo much wine. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, why would a woman be a
\nslave to Wine? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause in her older years with
\nher, physical Beauty god, a <\/p>\n
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\nlost her, physical Beauty, <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve, sometimes she’s lost
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\nWhen she died, Elizabeth Taylor
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\nkinds of surgical procedures?
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\nWhat is good?
\nSo older sisters are sources of <\/p>\n
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\nI am not doing that. <\/p>\n
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\nyou see a young woman struggling<\/p>\n
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\nknow? <\/p>\n
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\ngive her a cuss.
\nI’m going to give her a kiss and<\/p>\n
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\na hug and I’m going to tell you
\nlook I don’t know what it is. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I want you to know.
\nI love you and I’m here for you.<\/p>\n
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\nif you ever want to talk just <\/p>\n
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\nwant to but I won’t, I won’t <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll just pray for you and I <\/p>\n
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\nI know that we all go through <\/p>\n
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\nI’m here for you. <\/p>\n
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\nSometimes that’s all a sister
\nneeds, she might reach out to <\/p>\n
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\nyou but without even realizing
\nit, you may have kept her alive <\/p>\n
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\nand with her husband, one more
\nday. <\/p>\n
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\nOne more day.
\nAnd if they ask your advice how <\/p>\n
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\ndid you get through?
\nLike what did you do? <\/p>\n
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\nyour marriage? <\/p>\n
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\nyour marriage and the chances <\/p>\n
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\ncried by myself and I reached <\/p>\n
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\ntried that but nothing seems to
\nhappen. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that may not seem like a lot<\/p>\n
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\nAnd you don’t know how far that <\/p>\n
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\nSo they are to teach what is <\/p>\n
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\nWhen a woman has a teenage <\/p>\n
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\ngenerations are maturing more
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\nyou’ve made the things that
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\nExcuse you remember, that first <\/p>\n
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\nYou got mum. <\/p>\n
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\nputting the garbage Decor, still
\nusable, you could put some work <\/p>\n
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\nall the matching chairs made of
\nwood and one day you walk by and<\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:30,200 –> 00:24:34,700
\nthere’s a massive scuff on their
\nside of the table or on the top.<\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:35,600 –> 00:24:38,400
\nCan you feel your heart
\ncollapsing in on yourself <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:38,400 –> 00:24:42,100
\nbecause the thing you always
\nwanted for so long you have and <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:42,100 –> 00:24:46,300
\nnow it’s been scuffed and you
\ncould tell that young wife going<\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:46,300 –> 00:24:49,700
\nthrough the same thing.
\nThat’s not that important after <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:49,700 –> 00:24:53,400
\nall.
\nThose things are important just <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:53,400 –> 00:24:56,900
\nfor a brief moment in time and
\nthen they’re not important <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:56,900 –> 00:25:00,600
\nanymore.
\nHow do you keep on loving your <\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:00,600 –> 00:25:04,600
\nhusband?
\nWhen he’s distracted or selfish <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:12,000
\nor neglectful or worse?
\nHow many of you know, how you <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:12,000 –> 00:25:15,400
\ngot through?
\nAnd you just need to share that <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:16,100 –> 00:25:19,500
\nwith a younger sister.
\nThat, that that’s what God is <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:19,500 –> 00:25:23,100
\nsaying to us.
\nThe old brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:28,400
\nhave relevance, they have a
\npower to influence with their <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:28,400 –> 00:25:35,000
\nquiet, loving wise hearts, They
\nhave so much to give. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:36,000 –> 00:25:40,500
\nYou have so much to offer.
\nAnd not just to help them to <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:40,500 –> 00:25:44,300
\nkeep on loving their husbands
\nand to keep on loving the kids <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:44,300 –> 00:25:48,400
\nto the difficult phases.
\nBut to be self-controlled. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:49,500 –> 00:25:55,500
\nPure working at home kind and
\nsubmissive to their own <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:55,500 –> 00:25:58,300
\nhusband’s.
\nThat the word of God may not be <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:58,300 –> 00:26:01,500
\nreviled is any one of those
\nthings easy to do. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:03,300 –> 00:26:07,300
\nNot a single one of them, not
\none of those things is easy to <\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:07,300 –> 00:26:11,700
\ndo.
\nBut you learned so much through <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:11,700 –> 00:26:16,000
\nyour life as a wife that you can
\nshare. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:16,800 –> 00:26:20,600
\nDo they know more than you do
\nfrom an intellect. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:20,600 –> 00:26:24,800
\nAnd and and fact and knowledge
\nand education perspective will <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:24,800 –> 00:26:27,700
\nshow.
\nThey do, do they know more than <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:27,700 –> 00:26:29,900
\nyou from a spiritual
\nperspective. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:30,500 –> 00:26:34,900
\nThey most certainly do not you
\nhave so much you can help them <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:34,900 –> 00:26:41,600
\nwith and teach them with one of
\nthe great dangers of old age is <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:41,600 –> 00:26:46,100
\na yearning for the past.
\nI remember how it used to be. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:47,300 –> 00:26:52,200
\nWhen we went to a Bible School,
\neverybody wore jackets and ties.<\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:53,400 –> 00:26:56,900
\nTheir slacks and they were neat.
\nWell, polished shoes. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:57,600 –> 00:27:02,400
\nEverybody had manners and spoke
\nwith great respect to each <\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:02,400 –> 00:27:06,500
\nother.
\nRemember how kids behaved? <\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:06,700 –> 00:27:08,900
\nRemember how every meeting we
\nhad? <\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:08,900 –> 00:27:12,400
\nWas an event, that was so
\nreverential. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:13,100 –> 00:27:17,300
\nIt was all in everything that we
\ndid and how everything is so <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:17,300 –> 00:27:23,100
\nslack and slapdash and, you
\nknow, a jokey circus act. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:23,100 –> 00:27:27,800
\nIt’s nothing is serious.
\nLike it used to be I think <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:27,800 –> 00:27:30,100
\nthey’ve lost the truth.
\nThey’ve lost everything we used <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:30,100 –> 00:27:34,700
\nto have That’s how every
\ngeneration has felt. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:36,200 –> 00:27:39,900
\nIf Robert Roberts, which is see
\nyour generation in its youth. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:41,300 –> 00:27:47,500
\nIt would not have been pleased.
\nAnd so it goes for every single <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:47,500 –> 00:27:51,900
\ngeneration.
\nEcclesiastes chapter 7 verse 10 <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:51,900 –> 00:27:57,000
\nsays, do not.
\nSay why were the old days better<\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:57,000 –> 00:28:01,500
\nthan this?
\nFor it is not wise to ask such <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:01,500 –> 00:28:05,900
\nquestions.
\nWhoo, that’s cold and hard and <\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:05,900 –> 00:28:09,900
\nedgy isn’t it?
\nStop whining about the past. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:09,900 –> 00:28:12,800
\nThat’s what it says to me.
\nI don’t like that. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:13,100 –> 00:28:17,500
\nI feel it’s wrong.
\nBut it’s God speaking. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:20,800 –> 00:28:25,400
\nThe past is behind us.
\nThe days of Ezra with the <\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:25,400 –> 00:28:32,900
\nfoundation was laid.
\nThere was a combined outbreak. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:35,000 –> 00:28:38,700
\nOf heartbroken weeping and
\njoyful rejoicing. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:40,500 –> 00:28:44,700
\nOne generation who had never had
\ntheir own Temple, they grown up <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:44,700 –> 00:28:49,200
\nas Exiles, they’d been a
\nminority group that was <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:54,700
\ndiscriminated against in Persia.
\nAnd now they had the foundation <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:55,000 –> 00:28:59,100
\nof a temple, that would be
\nuniquely theirs, and recapture <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:02,300
\neverything that had been lost in
\ntheir worship. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:29:03,800 –> 00:29:08,800
\nBut the other generation looked
\nat this pathetically small in <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:08,900 –> 00:29:14,200
\nadequate replacement for what
\nthey remembered for, what used <\/p>\n
401
\n00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:19,800
\nto be for the way it was for how
\nthings used to work for how <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:19,800 –> 00:29:24,000
\nglorious they once were.
\nAnd in looking at what they had <\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:24,000 –> 00:29:28,500
\nlost.
\nThey fail to see the beauty of <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:28,500 –> 00:29:36,000
\nwhat they now still had.
\nSo, the truth is still alive. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:43,600
\nAre Ecclesia is a still going.
\nThe gospel is still believed <\/p>\n
406
\n00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:47,900
\nGod’s truth.
\nIs still preached. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:29:49,500 –> 00:29:53,400
\nWe still have Sunday schools.
\nWe still have Bible classes. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:29:54,900 –> 00:29:59,100
\nWe still have the readings.
\nWe still have the word of God <\/p>\n
409
\n00:29:59,100 –> 00:30:03,100
\nthat imperishable foundation for
\nour lives. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:04,500 –> 00:30:09,500
\nThe way it once, was the way
\nthings once were, is more a <\/p>\n
411
\n00:30:09,500 –> 00:30:14,100
\nmemory to hold onto fondly as
\nopposed to a stick with which to<\/p>\n
412
\n00:30:14,100 –> 00:30:17,000
\nbeat today, and the way things
\nare. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:19,800
\nNow, of course, we’re going to
\nsee things we wish were <\/p>\n
414
\n00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:26,000
\ndifferent, but rather than us
\nbeing critics, Coming from the <\/p>\n
415
\n00:30:26,000 –> 00:30:31,700
\nway things used to be.
\nLet’s find a way to rejoice in <\/p>\n
416
\n00:30:31,700 –> 00:30:35,700
\nthe things that currently are.
\nAdd to be to be grateful for the<\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:35,700 –> 00:30:37,600
\nfact that we still have ache
\nleisure’s. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:38,000 –> 00:30:42,400
\nWe’re still in, Ecclesia has And
\nto pray for her closures. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:44,400 –> 00:30:50,600
\nSo then what can you do?
\nOur job is old, brothers and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:53,100
\nsisters is to help the younger
\nGenerations. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:54,300 –> 00:30:59,700
\nIn Psalm 71 the psalmist, right?
\nEven when I’m old and gray, do <\/p>\n
422
\n00:30:59,700 –> 00:31:05,500
\nnot forsake, me my God, why
\nUntil I declare your powers to <\/p>\n
423
\n00:31:05,500 –> 00:31:10,800
\nthe Next Generation.
\nYour Mighty acts to all who are <\/p>\n
424
\n00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:13,900
\nto come.
\nNow, you might think to <\/p>\n
425
\n00:31:13,900 –> 00:31:15,500
\nyourself.
\nWell, you know what? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:20,200
\nMy memory of scriptures is
\nfading I’m losing track of <\/p>\n
427
\n00:31:20,200 –> 00:31:24,400
\npassages and where to find them.
\nI can remember phrases, <\/p>\n
428
\n00:31:24,600 –> 00:31:27,100
\nsometimes, remember a piece, but
\nI don’t always remember where it<\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:27,100 –> 00:31:30,300
\nis, but it’s not just talking
\nabout scripture. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:31,900 –> 00:31:35,800
\nWhat has God done for you?
\nAnd your life. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:36,800 –> 00:31:42,000
\nWhen you have reached out to him
\nin crisis, it prayer. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:43,200 –> 00:31:47,200
\nIn agony.
\nTalk about the mighty acts of <\/p>\n
433
\n00:31:47,200 –> 00:31:52,800
\nGod in your life.
\nTalk about what you went through<\/p>\n
434
\n00:31:53,500 –> 00:31:57,900
\nand how God got you through.
\nShare those stories. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:58,900 –> 00:32:02,500
\nWith brothers and sisters with
\nyoung ones especially because <\/p>\n
436
\n00:32:02,500 –> 00:32:05,700
\nthey will surely go through the
\nthings you have been through. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:06,300 –> 00:32:09,100
\nIt might be a different age, but
\nthey will still go through them.<\/p>\n
438
\n00:32:11,100 –> 00:32:14,100
\nAnd you can tell them how God
\ngot you through. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:32:15,000 –> 00:32:19,800
\nSo that you can show God was not
\njust active in the lives of the <\/p>\n
440
\n00:32:19,808 –> 00:32:24,500
\nJewish people.
\nIt wasn’t just a force in the <\/p>\n
441
\n00:32:24,500 –> 00:32:26,800
\nlives of Abraham, Isaac, and
\nJacob. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:29,300
\nTheir marriages and the raising
\nof their kids. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:32:30,700 –> 00:32:34,500
\nHe has most certainly been a
\nforce in my life. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:32:35,500 –> 00:32:37,800
\nAnd I couldn’t have gotten
\nthrough so many things. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:32:38,900 –> 00:32:43,500
\nWe’re not for him.
\nSo, talk to them about these <\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:43,500 –> 00:32:45,400
\nthings.
\nSee it as part of your <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:45,400 –> 00:32:49,500
\nresponsibility.
\nTo share with younger people. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:50,400 –> 00:32:57,500
\nThe mighty acts of God in your
\nlittle life. we also read in <\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:57,500 –> 00:33:02,000
\nverse 19, your righteousness,
\nGod reaches to the heavens, you <\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:02,000 –> 00:33:09,300
\nhave done great things who is
\nlike you God Of all the people <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:09,300 –> 00:33:12,300
\nin your life that you have had.
\nEven though you’ve had your <\/p>\n
452
\n00:33:12,300 –> 00:33:18,100
\nrough times with him, he’s the
\none person who has never ever <\/p>\n
453
\n00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:22,800
\nlet you down, even though you
\nfelt let down sometimes in <\/p>\n
454
\n00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:27,100
\nhindsight, you realized no.
\nHe didn’t really let me down. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:33:28,700 –> 00:33:32,100
\nI just had to go through that
\nthing and get through it. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:33,300 –> 00:33:39,000
\nSo, tell them share those
\nstories, we are creatures. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:33:40,500 –> 00:33:45,800
\nThat are tied to.
\nAnd energized by and <\/p>\n
458
\n00:33:45,800 –> 00:33:51,900
\nstrengthened by stories.
\nSo tell you a story. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:52,900 –> 00:33:57,400
\nNow, sometimes, sometimes the
\nstory can go on and on and be <\/p>\n
460
\n00:33:57,500 –> 00:34:00,800
\nrepetitive, there’s a brother at
\nour Ecclesia. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:01,900 –> 00:34:06,500
\nIs baptized about 13 years ago.
\nAnd every time you see in, <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:06,500 –> 00:34:10,400
\nthat’s every Bible class every
\nSunday school, every Sunday <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:10,400 –> 00:34:15,000
\nmorning every other time we get
\ntogether, he talks about how he <\/p>\n
464
\n00:34:15,000 –> 00:34:19,400
\nwas baptized.
\nHow his son changed his name to <\/p>\n
465
\n00:34:19,400 –> 00:34:25,699
\nLuke from Louis?
\nAnd he Berta Louis says, I asked<\/p>\n
466
\n00:34:25,699 –> 00:34:26,900
\nhim.
\nWhy did you change your name? <\/p>\n
467
\n00:34:26,900 –> 00:34:30,699
\nHe’s an Old Dutch brother.
\nAnd he says this, he tells you <\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:30,699 –> 00:34:34,300
\nthe story every time he swim and
\nLuke told me because I like the <\/p>\n
469
\n00:34:34,300 –> 00:34:38,600
\nGospel of Luke dad you should
\nread it sometime and Louis says <\/p>\n
470
\n00:34:38,600 –> 00:34:41,699
\nand I was a strict and devout
\nCatholic, I said we don’t read <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:41,699 –> 00:34:44,100
\nthe Bible.
\nRe-read. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:44,100 –> 00:34:47,800
\nThe missile, the Catholic
\nmissile, the priest reads, the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:50,000
\nBible tells us what we should
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:34:51,100 –> 00:34:53,400
\nAnd his son said, dad, you
\nshould read it. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:58,100
\nA one-day old Brother, Louie was
\non the subway, he saw a sign <\/p>\n
476
\n00:34:58,100 –> 00:35:02,400
\nadvertised on the top of the, of
\nthe car and it said, learn to <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:07,300
\nread the Bible seminar for the
\npublic at the church, treaty <\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:07,300 –> 00:35:11,100
\nCollegiate downtown Toronto.
\nAnd he went to Italy. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:35:11,100 –> 00:35:15,400
\nLearned the truth.
\nAnd to this day, he never stops <\/p>\n
480
\n00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:18,000
\ntelling the story.
\nAt first, I said they go, no <\/p>\n
481
\n00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:22,200
\nstory.
\nI don’t want to Louie. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:35:22,200 –> 00:35:26,400
\nDo you realize, you’ve told me
\nthis story, 25 times and I’d run<\/p>\n
483
\n00:35:26,400 –> 00:35:31,900
\naway, I would run away.
\nNow, I’m delighted to hear it <\/p>\n
484
\n00:35:31,900 –> 00:35:35,700
\nevery time, I hear it because it
\nunderscores to me. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:36,900 –> 00:35:43,300
\nA man’s story of faith.
\nThat comforts me and I look <\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:43,300 –> 00:35:45,100
\nforward to it.
\nI just look for up. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:35:45,400 –> 00:35:49,100
\nHere’s the story.
\nYes as God working in a man’s <\/p>\n
488
\n00:35:49,100 –> 00:35:52,000
\nlife.
\nSo, tell your story. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:35:53,200 –> 00:35:56,700
\nAnd tell your story.
\nAnd share your story. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:35:58,000 –> 00:36:01,200
\nBecause your story becomes
\nintegrated into someone else’s <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:04,500
\nstory.
\nAnd gives them the hope to hold <\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:04,500 –> 00:36:08,100
\non.
\nWhen you’re gone and you’re not <\/p>\n
493
\n00:36:08,100 –> 00:36:13,100
\nhere anymore.
\nSo what do you have to offer <\/p>\n
494
\n00:36:13,100 –> 00:36:16,700
\nthem as an old brother or sister
\nperspective? <\/p>\n
495
\n00:36:17,900 –> 00:36:21,100
\nWhen you’re 40 years old and
\nyou’re pushing yourself up the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:36:21,100 –> 00:36:25,500
\nline in your organization.
\nThe most important thing to you <\/p>\n
497
\n00:36:25,500 –> 00:36:32,000
\nis that promotion that bonus,
\nthat next stage. and it’s not <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:32,000 –> 00:36:38,500
\nthe most important thing that
\nthere is and now in your 70s and<\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:38,500 –> 00:36:44,200
\n80s that you’re way past, Career
\nor or caring about career. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:45,900 –> 00:36:50,100
\nYou know, that the Grandeur
\nperspective is higher than that.<\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:57,200
\nAnd it’s about where we going.
\nThrough what we believe. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:36:58,200 –> 00:36:59,800
\nThat what we believe is going to
\nhappen. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:04,100
\nSo you can offer a different
\nperspective to someone that <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:04,100 –> 00:37:08,100
\nmight be struggling in their
\ncareer, to just give them an <\/p>\n
505
\n00:37:08,100 –> 00:37:15,000
\ninsight into how to balance it.
\nSo that it does not overwhelm <\/p>\n
506
\n00:37:15,300 –> 00:37:18,600
\ntheir lives.
\nAnd so that the truth remains <\/p>\n
507
\n00:37:18,600 –> 00:37:25,600
\nvibrant and strong For them.
\nYou have experience to offer <\/p>\n
508
\n00:37:26,400 –> 00:37:30,000
\nthat young people don’t have,
\nyou have a story of faith and <\/p>\n
509
\n00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:34,100
\nconfidence in God.
\nLike Brother Louis has you have <\/p>\n
510
\n00:37:34,100 –> 00:37:37,600
\nregrets?
\nThe older you are, the more <\/p>\n
511
\n00:37:37,600 –> 00:37:42,600
\nregrets you have now?
\nRegrets are not a stick that you<\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:42,600 –> 00:37:48,100
\nuse to beat yourself up with.
\nThey are evidence of growth. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:50,400 –> 00:37:54,200
\nIf it’s 75 years of age, you
\nhave no regrets. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:54,900 –> 00:38:00,700
\nSomething is seriously wrong
\nwith you. but if you could look <\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:00,700 –> 00:38:05,200
\nback and say to yourself, you
\nknow, If I could do it over <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:08,100
\nagain.
\nI would do so many of those <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:08,100 –> 00:38:11,700
\nthings differently.
\nThe what that indicates is <\/p>\n
518
\n00:38:11,700 –> 00:38:18,500
\nyou’ve grown to a point where
\nyou can look back and understand<\/p>\n
519
\n00:38:19,100 –> 00:38:23,900
\nwhat you’ve done, where you’ve
\nbeen How you’ve behaved in your <\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:28,800
\nlife and the decisions that
\nyou’ve made and now you would do<\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:33,600
\nthings differently.
\nYou might be 75 years old, but <\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:37,600
\nif I could snap my fingers and
\nyou were 30 years old again, <\/p>\n
523
\n00:38:37,600 –> 00:38:40,000
\nwould you be happy about that?
\nNo. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:38:40,000 –> 00:38:47,200
\nYou would not Not one of us.
\nAnd that means you’ve grown and <\/p>\n
525
\n00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,000
\nthat means you regrets or
\nevidence of growth and they <\/p>\n
526
\n00:38:51,000 –> 00:38:53,100
\nshould give you a sense of all
\nright. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:55,500
\nGod’s got me.
\nThis far. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:38:56,400 –> 00:38:57,900
\nIs going to take me the rest of
\nthe way. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:00,000 –> 00:39:06,500
\nYou have empathy that is deeper
\nthan it was when you were 25. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:13,800
\nYou can respond to and feel.
\nSomeone else’s suffering. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:15,100 –> 00:39:19,000
\nAnd be willing to be there with
\nthem to comfort them. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:24,200
\nYou have greater broader
\ncompassion that the narrow <\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:24,200 –> 00:39:28,800
\ncompassion, you may have had
\nwhen you were 20, you’ve got <\/p>\n
534
\n00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,300
\nlove.
\nWhich if you are healthy in, it <\/p>\n
535
\n00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:37,200
\ncan strengthen other people.
\nYou have wisdom, the practical <\/p>\n
536
\n00:39:37,200 –> 00:39:40,800
\napplication of all the
\nknowledge, you’ve accumulated <\/p>\n
537
\n00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:44,700
\nand the outcomes of the
\nexperience that you have. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:39:45,900 –> 00:39:50,500
\nAnd you have the greatest
\nsuperpower a human being can <\/p>\n
539
\n00:39:50,500 –> 00:39:53,500
\npossibly have on the face of
\nthis Earth. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:39:55,800 –> 00:39:59,900
\nYou can pray for people.
\nNow, we think I can’t build a <\/p>\n
541
\n00:39:59,900 –> 00:40:03,100
\nhouse.
\nI can’t lift boxes to help <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:03,100 –> 00:40:06,100
\nsomebody move, I don’t have
\nmoney to pay for somebody’s <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:06,200 –> 00:40:10,000
\nhealth care costs, but I don’t
\nhave a lot of smart things, I <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:10,000 –> 00:40:13,400
\ncan say to people, but You can
\npray for them. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:14,700 –> 00:40:20,700
\nAnd that means little you with
\nall your aches and pains can <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:20,700 –> 00:40:29,600
\nreach out to the most powerful
\nbeing in existence, who is your <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:29,900 –> 00:40:33,400
\nfather?
\nAnd ask him to help somebody. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:35,300 –> 00:40:38,100
\nI trust him believe that he
\nwill. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:39,300 –> 00:40:43,200
\nAt the court, back to him and
\nsay, you remember how you helped<\/p>\n
550
\n00:40:43,200 –> 00:40:46,100
\nme?
\nI’m asking you to help this <\/p>\n
551
\n00:40:46,100 –> 00:40:49,800
\nbrother out the same way.
\nJust get him through Lord in <\/p>\n
552
\n00:40:49,800 –> 00:40:53,800
\nheaven, shall be.
\nIs there anything I can say that<\/p>\n
553
\n00:40:53,800 –> 00:40:57,600
\nwill help him just give me the
\nright words so I don’t make <\/p>\n
554
\n00:40:57,600 –> 00:41:01,200
\nthings worse.
\nI helped him to hold on. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:10,800
\nPsalm 92 says, the righteous
\nwill flourish like a palm tree. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:11,600 –> 00:41:13,500
\nThat’s good to hear it.
\nPalm Springs, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:14,900 –> 00:41:19,100
\nThey will grow like a Cedar of
\nLebanon planted in the house of <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:21,800
\nthe Lord, they will flourish in
\nthe courts of our God. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:22,100 –> 00:41:26,700
\nThey will still bear fruit in
\nold age. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:28,400 –> 00:41:31,200
\nNow, what’s that?
\nTalking about babies? <\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:31,200 –> 00:41:34,300
\nNo.
\nThank goodness. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:41:34,300 –> 00:41:37,000
\nIsn’t it sister?
\nCan you imagine it’s 75? <\/p>\n
563
\n00:41:37,000 –> 00:41:39,300
\nHaving a baby.
\nOh no. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:41:40,400 –> 00:41:45,500
\nThey will still bear fruit.
\nIn the lives that they <\/p>\n
565
\n00:41:45,500 –> 00:41:49,500
\ninfluence.
\nThe people that they comfort. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:41:50,800 –> 00:41:54,600
\nThe people, they encourage the
\npeople, they pray for they will <\/p>\n
567
\n00:41:54,600 –> 00:42:00,300
\nstill bear fruit.
\nIn old age, they will stay fresh<\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:00,400 –> 00:42:06,700
\nand green doing what’s
\nproclaiming listen son listen <\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:06,700 –> 00:42:09,500
\ndaughter.
\nThe Lord is upright. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:11,800 –> 00:42:14,200
\nI can’t rely on money.
\nI don’t care about my car. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:17,200
\nI don’t care where I live my
\nclothes don’t matter to me <\/p>\n
572
\n00:42:17,200 –> 00:42:20,400
\nanymore.
\nHe is my rock. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:22,200 –> 00:42:25,800
\nThere’s no wickedness in him.
\nGod will never you. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:25,800 –> 00:42:27,100
\nDo you wrong?
\nChild. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:28,500 –> 00:42:31,100
\nHe may not answer you the make
\nthe way you want him to answer <\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:31,100 –> 00:42:33,700
\nyou.
\nBut there’s no wickedness in <\/p>\n
577
\n00:42:33,700 –> 00:42:37,700
\nhim.
\nThere’s no greater thing that <\/p>\n
578
\n00:42:37,700 –> 00:42:42,300
\nyou can leave for your children.
\nThe knowing that. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:42:44,500 –> 00:42:49,700
\nAnd so, brothers and sisters.
\nThough, you may struggle with <\/p>\n
580
\n00:42:49,700 –> 00:42:53,400
\nloneliness.
\nThough, you may have your time <\/p>\n
581
\n00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:57,200
\nof deep isolation, you’re never
\nalone. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:42:58,300 –> 00:43:06,100
\nEven when you’re alone. as I 46
\nverse 4 says, God says, even to <\/p>\n
583
\n00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:14,600
\nyour old age and gray hairs.
\nI am he I am he who will sustain<\/p>\n
584
\n00:43:14,600 –> 00:43:18,500
\nyou.
\nI’ve made you and I will carry <\/p>\n
585
\n00:43:18,500 –> 00:43:21,400
\nyou.
\nI will sustain you. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:43:22,900 –> 00:43:24,000
\nAnd I will rescue you.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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