Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 197<\/p>\n
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\nBible School.
\nOur first period teacher is Deb.<\/p>\n
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\nRamjarin his General.
\nSubject is the whole duty of <\/p>\n
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\nman.
\nToday’s topic is coping in a <\/p>\n
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\nfalling.
\nFallen World. <\/p>\n
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\nExcuse me.
\nGood morning. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters.
\nDid you all have a good night <\/p>\n
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\nsleep?
\nWell, I don’t believe you <\/p>\n
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\nbecause at your age that’s an
\nimpossibility or a rarity a <\/p>\n
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\nrarity at least.
\nSo if you did have a good night <\/p>\n
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\nsleep, that’s a wonderful
\nblessing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the brother who are dear
\nbrother, who is presiding this <\/p>\n
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\nmorning, had to come and
\npractice my name with me just to<\/p>\n
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\nmake sure he pronounced it
\nproperly. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not an easy one and I was
\nin a somewhere in the east <\/p>\n
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\ncoast, Boston Baltimore, I’m not
\nsure where And I know it’s not <\/p>\n
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\npronounced Baltimore unless
\nyou’re a foreigner. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s polymer.
\nIf you’re from Baltimore and he <\/p>\n
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\ncame up, he said, okay, let’s do
\nit again. <\/p>\n
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\nDev Dev, dad, Rapture, and he
\nmust have done three or four <\/p>\n
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\ntimes, and he was literally
\nsweating. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, I didn’t care what he
\ncalled me. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you went up there in front
\nof, you know, group of about 300<\/p>\n
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\nchristadelphians, is this
\nGathering? <\/p>\n
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\nHe said, give me great pleasure
\nto announce brother, ramdev <\/p>\n
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\nashrams, his face turned sheet
\nwhite. <\/p>\n
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\nHe looked like he was going to
\npass out, I thought it was <\/p>\n
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\nfunny.
\nHe was so mortified, poor, <\/p>\n
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\nbrother.
\nI tell you, I don’t know how he <\/p>\n
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\ngot through it, but I’m sure he
\ndid not hear a word. <\/p>\n
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\nI said, four.
\nSession and his wife just you <\/p>\n
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\nknow stared sternly at him from
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\nashram.
\nSo we’re going to look now at <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesiastes 6 And then work our
\nway forward. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, let me just remind you a
\nlittle bit about how things are <\/p>\n
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\nput together in this book.
\nA they are the thoughts of a <\/p>\n
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\nbrother who has made some big
\nmistakes in his life. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s had a lot more than most
\npeople that he is ruled over <\/p>\n
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\nhave ever experienced.
\nIt didn’t make him happy. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was always something he
\nwas searching for and searching <\/p>\n
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\nfor and searching for so money
\npower. <\/p>\n
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\nWomen opportunities just didn’t
\nfill the void and he noticed he <\/p>\n
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\nnoticed that life had an
\ninherent hole in it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe looked at the world of the
\nway things work and he saw <\/p>\n
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\nunfairness and so many different
\nways. <\/p>\n
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\nHe also saw in unpredictability
\nHe realized that you could be a <\/p>\n
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\ngood person or a righteous
\nperson or a God-fearing person <\/p>\n
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\nwe know.
\nNo one is good Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nSaid that, but a God-fearing
\nperson and still have a really <\/p>\n
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\ntough difficult, painful life.
\nYou could be a wicked individual<\/p>\n
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\nand have a trouble-free life and
\nso there wasn’t a <\/p>\n
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\npredictability.
\nHe saw based on how you behaved <\/p>\n
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\nin this world.
\nBut he realizes. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fits and starts.
\nIt seems through the course of <\/p>\n
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\nthe writing of the book and the
\ncapturing of these alternating <\/p>\n
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\nthoughts that in the end, a life
\nof faith. <\/p>\n
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\nIs the life.
\nThat we need to subscribe to <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nWe need to hold on to and that <\/p>\n
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\ngoing and making our life in
\nthis world, all about parties <\/p>\n
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\nand laughter.
\nAnd merriment is ultimately an <\/p>\n
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\nempty life.
\nThe life of a Believer which in <\/p>\n
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\ninvolves endurance patients, and
\nchoosing to believe, and have <\/p>\n
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\nfaith in God is something that
\nwe should all be trying to do. <\/p>\n
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\nAm I the only one who’s hearing
\nbells or is this a problem? <\/p>\n
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\nNone in my head?
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
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\nSounds like some kind of
\ntinkling jingling that’s going <\/p>\n
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\non.
\nSo when we go through these <\/p>\n
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\nchapters sometimes, he writes
\nfrom the point of view of a man <\/p>\n
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\nof faith, Other time, he writes
\nfrom the point of view, of the <\/p>\n
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\ndarkening view towards the end
\nof life of a man of this world <\/p>\n
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\nat an uncle, like that made a
\nvery, very big success of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife dragged himself up out of
\npoverty. <\/p>\n
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\nMy dad’s brother Was very kind
\nto all of his brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters and their kids often had
\nyoung families who were nephews <\/p>\n
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\nand nieces living free of charge
\nin houses that he owned just <\/p>\n
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\nfree because it was who he was.
\nHe had a terribly hot temper <\/p>\n
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\nwhen he got going.
\nAnd he would lose his temper and<\/p>\n
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\nthen it was over except for the
\nperson with whom he had lost his<\/p>\n
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\ntemper. now they had to go and
\nget repaired somewhere after, <\/p>\n
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\nbut as his life went on, Fewer
\nand fewer people came and <\/p>\n
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\nvisited him.
\nFewer and fewer people. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember to come, say thank you
\nto him for all of his kindness. <\/p>\n
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\nEverything the that he had done.
\nEven found this time goes by <\/p>\n
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\nwent by that.
\nThe people that were closest to <\/p>\n
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\nhim, didn’t come to see him.
\nNot part of that, was because of<\/p>\n
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\nhis temper and his critical
\nnature. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it tended to alienate
\npeople with the problem was the <\/p>\n
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\npeople closest to him weren’t
\nthere for him, as he was dying. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so all the money, all the
\npower, all the influence, all <\/p>\n
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\nthe adulation, all the hangers,
\non all the people who benefited,<\/p>\n
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\nnone of that mattered at the end
\nof his life. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause what he experienced is,
\nwhat this man is describing in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Book of Ecclesiastes.
\nHe’s describing the fact that in<\/p>\n
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\nspite of everything that you get
\nand everything you can have <\/p>\n
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\napart from God, if your life is
\nonly about what is Under the Sun<\/p>\n
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\non this Earth, It winds up being
\nan altogether, empty life. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the point he’s making.
\nNow this is Solomon. <\/p>\n
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\nI believe it is Solomon and he
\nspeaking to the congregation <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe not in one connected talk
\nbut he would give pieces of this<\/p>\n
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\nmessage.
\nHe was talking to a culture that<\/p>\n
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\nwas all about materialism.
\nYes, they believed in Yahweh, <\/p>\n
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\nthe god of Israel.
\nBut they were all about the <\/p>\n
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\naccumulation of wealth and we
\nsee evidence of that because of <\/p>\n
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\nthe abundance of gold and silver
\nas its described During the <\/p>\n
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\nperiod of Solomon.
\nAnd also the attitude of the men<\/p>\n
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\nthat grew up with rehoboam who
\nsaid no, no, no, you’re not <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to go out to these people
\nand tell them that you’re going <\/p>\n
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\nto ease up on the tax burden.
\nYou’re going to tell them. <\/p>\n
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\nYou think it was hard under my
\ndad, it’s going to be twice as <\/p>\n
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\nhard under me, because I’m
\ntougher stronger, and I’m going <\/p>\n
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\nto require more of you than he
\never asked. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in whose interest, was that
\nnot the people’s? <\/p>\n
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\nBut in their personal interest
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\nwealth as rapidly as possible.
\nAnd of course it split the <\/p>\n
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\nnation. because the man named
\njeroboam who had fled for his <\/p>\n
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\nlife and then had come back into
\nthe country at the death of <\/p>\n
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\nSolomon who had grown up the son
\nof a widow and we’re told that <\/p>\n
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\ndeliberately for a reason, it
\nmeant that he was a man who knew<\/p>\n
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\nwould poverty and hard times
\nwere like He could have a sense <\/p>\n
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\nof fellow feeling with people
\nwho struggled to pay their <\/p>\n
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\ntaxes, who often had to sell
\ntheir kids into slavery so that <\/p>\n
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\nthey could pay the debts that
\nwere incurred. <\/p>\n
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\nAs a result of the hardship of
\nthe system of Taxation that was <\/p>\n
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\nin place under Solomon.
\nHe could relate to those who <\/p>\n
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\nfelt as if they’d been bruised
\nby an alienated from the <\/p>\n
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\nleadership of the country.
\nAnd so he could speak to their <\/p>\n
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\nhearts in a way that rehoboam
\nhad grown up in the lap of <\/p>\n
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\nluxury with his friends.
\nCould never hope to be able to <\/p>\n
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\nspeak to the people.
\nIt is no wonder that he was able<\/p>\n
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\nto take the majority of the
\nnation away with him. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause he could speak to their
\nsense of grievance. <\/p>\n
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\nTheir sense of having been taken
\nadvantage of by the rich and <\/p>\n
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\nPowerful, their sense of the
\nfact that the leaders did not <\/p>\n
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\ngive a hoot about them, and they
\nhad to look after themselves. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s why they say those words.
\nWell, you look after yourself <\/p>\n
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\nJudah.
\nThey go their own way. but this <\/p>\n
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\nSociety under Solomon, Is
\nAfflicted with great materialism<\/p>\n
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\nand we can relate to that, can’t
\nwe? <\/p>\n
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\nWe can relate to that both for
\nourselves having grown old in <\/p>\n
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\nthe society in times of
\nprosperity without War. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s why this war is so
\nshocking to us because there has<\/p>\n
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\nnot been a war like this in
\nEurope since the Second World <\/p>\n
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\nWar, I know, there was the the
\nconflict in Yugoslavia, that <\/p>\n
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\noccurred.
\nBut a major power attacking <\/p>\n
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\nanother country in Europe, has
\nnot happened. <\/p>\n
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\nSince the Germans did it?
\nThe Czechoslovakia Poland France<\/p>\n
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\nand so on and so forth.
\nSo this is a, this is a this is <\/p>\n
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\nalmost an echo coming back from
\nsome of your childhoods when you<\/p>\n
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\nlook back and you remember the
\ntimes when people had to tighten<\/p>\n
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\ntheir belts because of the war
\nnecessity and the way that <\/p>\n
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\nProvisions were really hard to
\nget a hold of and there wasn’t a<\/p>\n
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\nhuge amount of Obesity was not a
\nproblem at that time. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause nobody had a lot or a
\nlot to eat. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Solomon is talking to the
\nhearts of people who ultimately,<\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t listen. but his words
\ncontinue to move ours today <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we can see an alignment
\nbetween what he is talking about<\/p>\n
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\nand our own struggles in the
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what does that mean then?
\nBelievers have doubts. <\/p>\n
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\nDoubt is a part of our life and
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, it is.
\nYes, we do. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are times when we have
\ndoubts, there are times when you<\/p>\n
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\nstruggle to make sense of what’s
\nhappening. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat God seems to be allowing or
\ndoing in our lives, or the lives<\/p>\n
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\nof those that we see around us
\nor even distant from us. <\/p>\n
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\nYou think of that brother and
\nhis little boy in the Ukraine <\/p>\n
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\nthat Mark showed us in that
\nwonderful session last night. <\/p>\n
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\nHearts bleed for them.
\nImagine what that must be like. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we see our children,
\nsometimes your children in their<\/p>\n
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\n30s 40s, 50s, or even 60s and
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\nrealize how do you live that and
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\nBut doubts. <\/p>\n
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\nWe are going to have our
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\nI may not understand that. <\/p>\n
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\nI choose God.
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\nAnd I will continue to believe
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\nAnd so when our kids come to us
\nwith their doubts, Sometimes we,<\/p>\n
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\nwe don’t tell them about our own
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\nBut we have our struggles in the
\nfaith, and we come back and we <\/p>\n
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\nkeep holding on.
\nSo this this book is filled with<\/p>\n
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\nam and struggles of the faith as
\nhe wrestles with materialism. <\/p>\n
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\nAs he experiments with the
\npleasures and the prosperity of <\/p>\n
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\nhis age. while, at the same
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\nAnd those things that are
\nassociated with, what is eternal<\/p>\n
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\nBeyond Death beyond, what we
\nsee. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have faith in.
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\naccomplish.
\nSo the book is so modern fact, <\/p>\n
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\nmany philosophers today.
\nSee this as a book that aligns <\/p>\n
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\nkind of philosophy that was <\/p>\n
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\ncalled existentialism the dogs
\nabout the fact that all we have <\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nAll we see here that’s all there<\/p>\n
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\nis and the life of humanity is
\naltogether dark and ends in ends<\/p>\n
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\nwith nothingness, puts us into a
\nvoid with nothing Beyond And so <\/p>\n
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\nphilosophers of an existential
\nbent. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at this book and say, oh
\nboy. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is an ancient book that
\naligns with what we believe and <\/p>\n
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\nthey ignore all the bits that
\ntalk about faith and God and <\/p>\n
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\nholding on to God, So, it’s very
\nmodern. <\/p>\n
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\nof sayings. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd at the end of the book,
\nit’ll say that the preacher <\/p>\n
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\ncollected Proverbs.
\nAnd of course if Solomon wrote <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve he did. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, it’s a collection of
\nthings that he put together as <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we interpret each of these
\nbased on circumstances to <\/p>\n
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\nbe sent in one way at a certain <\/p>\n
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\nopposite way. <\/p>\n
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\nlet’s jump back into chapter 6, <\/p>\n
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\nthen There is an evil, which I
\nhave seen where Under the Sun on<\/p>\n
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\nand it is common among men, a <\/p>\n
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\nwealth and honor so that he <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that can happen in this
\nworld work work. <\/p>\n
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\nhand it off to someone who
\nenjoys it all and frittered Away<\/p>\n
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\nwith zero work whatsoever.
\nNow Solomon seems to have this <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that has given him the
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\nWhat’s this, boy? <\/p>\n
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\nyour years be many, but your
\nsoul is not filled with good and<\/p>\n
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\nMoreover, he hath not seen the
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\nmore rest than the other.
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\nthan a man who had all this
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\nNever enjoyed it and handed it
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\nall of his possessions and all <\/p>\n
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\nof his might get a hard time,
\nreally enjoying what he had. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen going to drop down now.
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\nNow, what could that possibly
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\nThis is what it means.
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\nAnd desire it and be grateful
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\ntoday, Amazon, eBay and Cetera,
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\nwanting more, I know, because <\/p>\n
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\nwho like technology, well, it’s
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\nisn’t it?
\nHow many of you have felt that <\/p>\n
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\nyou really do need to get that
\nnew iPhone every two years? <\/p>\n
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\nI’m talking about you kids in
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\nbecome obsolete quickly. <\/p>\n
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\nis emptiness and a striving
\nafter wind. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what are we striving after?
\nYou know, that feeling <\/p>\n
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\nyoungsters when your Amazon box
\narrives and you have bring it in<\/p>\n
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\nvideos of what they call <\/p>\n
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\nHow stupid is that a person <\/p>\n
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\nit yet.
\nNow, I take our knife when I’m <\/p>\n
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\nBox G, they have good tape on
\nthese boxes. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the lunacy of this age.
\nWhat is the wind? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re chasing, happiness.
\nYou feel happy and then it’s <\/p>\n
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\nWhatever. <\/p>\n
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\nThe thing is, I like music and I
\nlike something that’s really <\/p>\n
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\nold.
\nIt’s called a CD, right? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all today.
\nNow do used to be that if you <\/p>\n
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\nhad to buy the kind of music.
\nI like, do I know if told you <\/p>\n
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\nabout this Rolling Stones, it’s
\nat. <\/p>\n
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\nStones The Beatles, Led <\/p>\n
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\nZeppelin, you remember it?
\nAnd I know you may not know any <\/p>\n
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\nwithin appropriate names, and so<\/p>\n
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\non and so forth.
\nBut I learned all about learn to<\/p>\n
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\nlove, classical music and Jazz.
\nNow, what would happen is you’d <\/p>\n
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\nbuy one Jazz CD.
\nIt might cost you $15. <\/p>\n
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\nToday, you can get 150 Jazz CDs
\nin one box for $100. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what we paid for those
\nthings. 25 years ago, 30 years <\/p>\n
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\nnothing today. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what do you think that’s
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\nOh no.
\nI won’t do that. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s that’s gritty
\ninappropriate. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is a room I have.
\nYou can barely walk into because<\/p>\n
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\nI do not have enough time in my <\/p>\n
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\nlifetime to listen to But the
\nthe urge to accumulate I can get<\/p>\n
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\nthe complete works of Mozart for
\n$150. <\/p>\n
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\nYes I’m getting that it’s still
\nin its plastic in that room <\/p>\n
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\nbecause that’s what our
\nmaterialistic age is doing to us<\/p>\n
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\nfitful desire to find, happiness
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\nEvery one of them not one single<\/p>\n
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\nCD will be left, right?
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\nworth of those things they will
\ndemonstrate right. <\/p>\n
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\nThose things that made me so
\nhappy, you know. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd for every brother and sister
\nis a different thing might be <\/p>\n
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\nSupplies for the thing he will <\/p>\n
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\nnever ever get around to sewing,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nThat person could possibly have <\/p>\n
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\nsheep that were hunted down on <\/p>\n
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\nthe whatever, right?
\nRight, and cars brothers and <\/p>\n
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\ntheir cars, right?
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\nEverybody’s thing that they have<\/p>\n
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\n00:23:55,000 –> 00:23:58,300
\nthat you don’t have is a
\nridiculous and silly Obsession. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:23:58,300 –> 00:24:02,700
\nThey have those people over
\nthere in that thing, but mine’s <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:02,700 –> 00:24:07,900
\na serious collection thing.
\nWith meaning and importance, <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:08,400 –> 00:24:13,900
\neven if it’s like Marvel comic
\nbooks from the 1960s, right? <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:13,900 –> 00:24:15,600
\nOh, sorry.
\nI think I must have touched a <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:15,608 –> 00:24:19,300
\nnerve for a couple.
\nCouple of the youngsters in the <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:19,300 –> 00:24:23,400
\nback there.
\nCaptain America episode of way. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:25,300 –> 00:24:29,700
\nSo let’s drop down then to
\nchapter 7. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:30,100 –> 00:24:35,500
\nHe says, look a good name, a
\ngood reputation, a good <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:35,500 –> 00:24:39,000
\ncharacter.
\nIs better than precious <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:39,000 –> 00:24:42,600
\nointment.
\nNow, what why would he would you<\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:42,608 –> 00:24:47,900
\nput those two things together?
\nBecause when a woman is in your <\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:47,900 –> 00:24:52,900
\npresence and has that kind of
\nGreat Character, you won’t know <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:52,900 –> 00:24:56,300
\nit right off the bat.
\nBut if she has a precious <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:56,300 –> 00:24:59,300
\nointment on, you will know it
\nfrom yards away from her before <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:59,300 –> 00:25:02,200
\nyou even reach there.
\nAnd so what are you saying? <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:02,200 –> 00:25:08,600
\nIs the showi outward, things,
\nthe luxurious, whatever of our <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:09,000 –> 00:25:15,000
\nof our life today is empty.
\nWhat is more important is <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:15,000 –> 00:25:18,400
\ncharacter?
\nIt’s been well said for our <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:18,400 –> 00:25:20,500
\nkids.
\nI know you’re all thinking along<\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:20,500 –> 00:25:21,900
\nthese lines.
\nYou, what are you going to leave<\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:21,900 –> 00:25:25,500
\nyour kids.
\nWhat is what was more important <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:25,600 –> 00:25:29,900
\nthan what you leave for?
\nYour kids is what you leave in <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:30,000 –> 00:25:33,800
\nyour kids.
\nWould you live in in your kids, <\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:34,500 –> 00:25:38,200
\nwhat you’ve taught them, how you
\nraise them, the character that <\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:38,200 –> 00:25:42,700
\nthey’ve developed, what what
\nyou, what you taught them was <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:42,700 –> 00:25:45,700
\nmost important, even if for now,
\nthey look like they’ve walked <\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:45,700 –> 00:25:50,300
\naway from it.
\nWhat you’ve left in them, is <\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:50,300 –> 00:25:53,200
\nmore important than anything,
\nyou could leave them to spend or<\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:57,900
\nlive in or, or hold on to
\nbecause all those things will <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:58,300 –> 00:26:01,600
\nDrift Away into the ether when
\nwhat you’ve left. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:01,800 –> 00:26:07,700
\nIn them will always be in them
\neven a child that walks away <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:07,700 –> 00:26:13,300
\nfrom our faith.
\nWe’ll have in them things that <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:13,300 –> 00:26:20,000
\nwe raise them with hard work,
\ndedication, honesty Integrity, <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:21,200 –> 00:26:24,800
\nthat marks them as different to
\nthe people in this world and <\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:24,800 –> 00:26:29,200
\ndon’t mourn about your kids.
\nHaving left the truth or not in <\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:29,200 –> 00:26:31,500
\nthe truth because where there is
\nlife, there is hope. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:32,700 –> 00:26:37,900
\nThere’s a woman who came back to
\nthe meeting in her 80s in <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:37,900 –> 00:26:44,400
\nToronto.
\nWe were doing a campaign and <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:44,400 –> 00:26:47,400
\ngoing out and inviting people
\nwho had been to the learn to <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:49,900
\nread the Bible seminar series
\nand stop coming. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:51,200 –> 00:26:57,500
\nSo a couple of us were paired up
\nand knocked on a house and and a<\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:57,508 –> 00:27:01,000
\nwoman came out who was in her
\n80s and we said, look, we were <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:01,000 –> 00:27:06,300
\ninviting you to to a special
\nlecture for people who at some <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:06,300 –> 00:27:08,400
\npoint in time have come to the
\nseminar series. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:08,400 –> 00:27:11,300
\nAnd we’d like to invite you, she
\nsaid the strangest thing. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:11,300 –> 00:27:14,000
\nShe said, why you don’t usually
\ndo that? <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:15,600 –> 00:27:19,600
\nPlease come in.
\nShe made us a pot of tea and we <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:19,600 –> 00:27:24,800
\nhad some cookies, and, and some
\ntime into the cookie. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:24,800 –> 00:27:29,400
\nShe said, actually, I am the
\ndaughter of the recording, <\/p>\n
387
\n00:27:29,400 –> 00:27:35,100
\nbrother of the Church Street,
\nEcclesia. and in the 1940s when <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:35,100 –> 00:27:39,200
\nI married outside of the truth,
\nThe arranging board. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:39,200 –> 00:27:44,600
\nThe arranging Brethren.
\nSent me a blistering letter and <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:44,600 –> 00:27:49,400
\nI left the truth.
\nI used to bring my daughters to <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:53,800
\nthe cyc, but after a while
\nbecause their mom and dad <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:57,200
\nweren’t in the truth, the kids
\nreally didn’t treat them all <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:57,200 –> 00:27:59,100
\nthat well.
\nSo they stopped coming too. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:01,400 –> 00:28:03,200
\nNow, this sister’s name was
\nMargaret. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:03,200 –> 00:28:08,200
\nKempthorne Margaret came back in
\nin her 80s. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:09,700 –> 00:28:12,000
\nMade a special trip down to
\nChurch Street Ecclesia. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:12,000 –> 00:28:16,000
\nSo she could visit the hall with
\nthose Brethren and their <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:16,000 –> 00:28:20,200
\nchildren long dead so that she
\ncould just go there and forgive <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:21,100 –> 00:28:26,600
\nwhat had been done.
\nGeez to worry. what is going to <\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:26,600 –> 00:28:32,500
\nhappen to my little girls and
\nthey were 60s going into 70. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:34,000 –> 00:28:38,300
\nShe died in her 90s and directly
\nafter her death. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:38,500 –> 00:28:41,400
\nOne of her girls was baptized in
\nher 70s. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:46,400
\nIn her 70s.
\nSo he might think what’s going <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:48,900
\nto happen to my kids.
\nI’ve lost everything. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:48,900 –> 00:28:51,800
\nI wish I’d raise them
\ndifferently, I wish I was there <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:55,300
\nmore all the things that parents
\ntorture themselves with. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:56,000 –> 00:28:58,500
\nThere isn’t a mistake, your
\nchild makes as a. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:58,500 –> 00:29:03,100
\nFull-grown art adult that you
\ndon’t blame yourself for for <\/p>\n
409
\n00:29:03,100 –> 00:29:05,800
\nsome degree.
\nIf I’d raise them differently, <\/p>\n
410
\n00:29:05,800 –> 00:29:09,100
\nif I given him more love, less
\ndiscipline more, this more that <\/p>\n
411
\n00:29:09,400 –> 00:29:13,000
\nwe all do that.
\nIt’s what we do as parents. but <\/p>\n
412
\n00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:18,600
\nremember, Though he may not have
\nchosen God, or he may have <\/p>\n
413
\n00:29:18,600 –> 00:29:22,000
\nwalked away from God, God
\nbrought that child into the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:29:22,000 –> 00:29:25,200
\nworld.
\nGod is still working in his <\/p>\n
415
\n00:29:25,200 –> 00:29:28,200
\nlife.
\nAnd where there is life. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:29,300 –> 00:29:32,100
\nThere’s always the hope that
\nthrough tragedy. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:34,100 –> 00:29:38,500
\nThrough the Advent of Common
\nSense through a yearning for <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:38,500 –> 00:29:41,200
\nsomething that’s more meaningful
\nwhen he looks at The Emptiness <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:41,200 –> 00:29:44,700
\nof life, when you have
\neverything you ever wanted and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:44,700 –> 00:29:49,400
\nrealize you have nothing.
\nIt somehow God will bring him <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:49,400 –> 00:29:54,000
\naround back into his truth.
\nPray for that. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:55,300 –> 00:29:57,400
\nI know we should be looking at
\nthese chapters but there’s one <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:04,300
\nmore thing I just want to
\nmention to you, Start working on<\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:04,300 –> 00:30:10,400
\nhaving a good death.
\nWhat do I mean by that? <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:12,300 –> 00:30:14,900
\nModel for your children,
\nforgiveness. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:30:17,200 –> 00:30:23,200
\nModel for your children, faith.
\nAnd trust in God. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:30:24,900 –> 00:30:28,400
\nModel for your children, the
\nrecognition that this life that <\/p>\n
428
\n00:30:28,400 –> 00:30:31,700
\nwe have, even with all the pain
\nand suffering that comes at the <\/p>\n
429
\n00:30:31,700 –> 00:30:36,600
\nend of this, of the end of it,
\nthis is not all we have. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:30:37,500 –> 00:30:42,300
\nThat there’s something better.
\nThere’s something coming and <\/p>\n
431
\n00:30:42,300 –> 00:30:46,600
\nthat when I close my eyes, I
\nopen them almost instantaneously<\/p>\n
432
\n00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:53,200
\nand I’m standing at somebody’s
\nfeet. and that you may have to <\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:53,200 –> 00:30:58,600
\nlive your life son for another
\n30, 40, 50 years, But I will be <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:02,900
\nright at his feet.
\nHoping for his Mercy. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:04,400 –> 00:31:08,500
\nAnd his grace.
\nAn entry into his kingdom. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:14,400
\nLet this stage of your life as
\nyou go towards and used as you <\/p>\n
437
\n00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:19,200
\nget to those last days.
\nNot be about disappointment or <\/p>\n
438
\n00:31:19,200 –> 00:31:23,600
\nbitterness or Hertz and Wrongs
\nthat you still feel. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:31:25,000 –> 00:31:26,100
\nThat all that stuff.
\nGo. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:31:27,300 –> 00:31:33,600
\nLet it go and have a good death.
\nBecause how you die? <\/p>\n
441
\n00:31:35,100 –> 00:31:39,500
\nWe’ll teach your child about
\nwhat was most important to you. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:31:41,200 –> 00:31:45,300
\nAnd could draw their minds back
\ninto the future. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:31:46,400 –> 00:31:52,200
\nIn to what’s most important. or,
\nthey might think, you know, Mom <\/p>\n
444
\n00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:57,900
\nwas in so much pain.
\nI could barely look at what she <\/p>\n
445
\n00:31:57,900 –> 00:32:01,700
\nwas going through.
\nBut you kept on talking about <\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:01,700 –> 00:32:05,700
\nGod.
\nShe kept on talking about the <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:05,700 –> 00:32:09,400
\nkingdom.
\nShe kept on telling me, son. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:11,100 –> 00:32:15,200
\nYou have to forgive your sister.
\nAnd make peace. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:17,500 –> 00:32:19,700
\nBecause that’s what God would
\nwant you to do. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:24,500
\nAnd if there’s a Last Wish I
\nhave, if I want you to honor <\/p>\n
451
\n00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:28,100
\nIt’s to make peace with your
\nsiblings. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:30,800 –> 00:32:35,100
\nI have let go everything.
\nIt was in my mind. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:36,300 –> 00:32:40,400
\nCreating a problem for me.
\nAll the hurts. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:41,500 –> 00:32:45,800
\nEverything that offended me.
\nWhat this one or that one did to<\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:48,400
\nme?
\nwhat I could have had, and <\/p>\n
456
\n00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:55,100
\ndidn’t have I let it all go.
\nBecause I want to be like <\/p>\n
457
\n00:32:55,100 –> 00:32:58,600
\nChrist.
\nBecause I know that the happiest<\/p>\n
458
\n00:32:58,600 –> 00:33:01,500
\ncondition I can be in in all
\nthis pain. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:04,200 –> 00:33:10,600
\nIs with a kind of thinking.
\nThat is about Grace and Hope. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:33:11,700 –> 00:33:16,000
\nAnd a future that I know is
\ncoming with all my being, I’ve <\/p>\n
461
\n00:33:16,000 –> 00:33:20,300
\ngot to get through this pain.
\nAfter close my eyes one day. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:33:21,900 –> 00:33:24,600
\nBut I want you to think about
\nthese things. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:33:26,100 –> 00:33:28,200
\nSo you might think what have you
\ngot to give your kids at this <\/p>\n
464
\n00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:31,700
\nstage, you can give them a good
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:33,800 –> 00:33:39,600
\nAnd it means those things.
\nSo that they know what was most <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:43,700
\nimportant, it’s the last
\npreaching campaign, you will be <\/p>\n
467
\n00:33:43,700 –> 00:33:48,800
\non.
\nAnd it could save someone’s life<\/p>\n
468
\n00:33:48,800 –> 00:33:52,500
\nthat you love.
\nMargaret is going to stand up at<\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:52,500 –> 00:33:56,300
\nthe Judgment seat of look over.
\nAnd see someone. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:56,300 –> 00:33:58,200
\nShe didn’t expect would be
\nthere. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:00,100 –> 00:34:01,900
\nCan you imagine the joy of that
\nmoment? <\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:04,100 –> 00:34:07,200
\nAll right, then.
\nBack into chapter 7. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:34:08,400 –> 00:34:13,199
\nVerse form, the heart of the
\nwise is in the house of <\/p>\n
474
\n00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:17,699
\nmourning.
\nNot at the house of delight of <\/p>\n
475
\n00:34:17,699 –> 00:34:22,300
\npartying of noise of festivity
\nthough. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:34:22,500 –> 00:34:27,900
\nHeart of the wise is in the
\nhouse of mourning does it does <\/p>\n
477
\n00:34:27,900 –> 00:34:33,000
\nthat mean that we’re
\ndeath-obsessed know, but it <\/p>\n
478
\n00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:36,800
\nmeans that when we Are at a
\nfuneral. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:34:39,400 –> 00:34:41,300
\nWe’re in a time of deep
\nreflection. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:46,699
\nLooking within and thinking
\nthrough where we are taking <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:46,699 –> 00:34:50,500
\nstock of where our heart is
\nlocated. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:55,100
\nWhat our mind is focused on.
\nWhere we need to be. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:56,900 –> 00:34:59,400
\nNow, you may look at it that way
\nand say okay this is talking <\/p>\n
484
\n00:34:59,400 –> 00:35:01,800
\nabout other people’s funerals.
\nYes. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:08,800
\nBut think about the house of
\nmourning being the memorial <\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:11,400
\nmeeting, you and I are in every
\nevery week. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:35:13,200 –> 00:35:17,800
\nWhere we reflect on the man who
\ngave his life for us. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:35:20,000 –> 00:35:25,200
\nWe think about the love.
\nThe obedience. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:30,700
\nThe suffering.
\nThe compassion. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:37,200
\nThe empathy.
\nThe Deep rapport. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:42,400
\nBetween a man who had nothing
\nbut his faith. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:35:44,100 –> 00:35:48,000
\nAnd his belief in God.
\nAnd his love for him. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:35:49,600 –> 00:35:53,200
\nAnd his love for people, he had
\nnot even ever met during his <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:53,200 –> 00:36:01,500
\nlifetime. we think and we we in
\nthat house of mourning, remember<\/p>\n
495
\n00:36:01,600 –> 00:36:08,500
\nhis example that he said for us,
\nAnd then we have the uplift of <\/p>\n
496
\n00:36:08,500 –> 00:36:14,000
\nremembering in that house of
\nmourning that it was the pathway<\/p>\n
497
\n00:36:14,000 –> 00:36:17,500
\nthat led to eternal life for
\nhim. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:20,000 –> 00:36:24,400
\nSo, his suffering had meaning.
\nWhat he went through, what he <\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:24,400 –> 00:36:30,000
\nendured had purpose in it.
\nAnd it’s the same for you. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:33,500 –> 00:36:38,200
\nBut we go through what we suffer
\nis not meaningless, stuff that <\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:38,200 –> 00:36:41,900
\nhappens to us by chance
\nrandomly. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:36:43,500 –> 00:36:48,500
\nGod is at work.
\nVerse 14 of chapter 7, he says, <\/p>\n
503
\n00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:51,500
\nin the day of prosperity, be
\njoyful. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:36:52,400 –> 00:36:58,500
\nBut in the day of adversity,
\nconsider God hath. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:36:58,500 –> 00:37:07,100
\nEven made the one side by side
\nwith the other to the end, that <\/p>\n
506
\n00:37:07,100 –> 00:37:11,600
\nman should not find out anything
\nthat shall be after him. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:37:12,100 –> 00:37:17,400
\nWhat does that mean?
\nGod has deliberately put Happy <\/p>\n
508
\n00:37:17,400 –> 00:37:22,500
\nDays and sad days into our life.
\nSo that we have no choice. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:37:24,000 –> 00:37:28,700
\nBut to reach out to him and hope
\nso that we can’t predict, we <\/p>\n
510
\n00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:31,400
\ndon’t always know how things are
\ngoing to go. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:37:31,700 –> 00:37:36,400
\nThat’s in his hands.
\nOur responsibility. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,000
\nIs to trust in him. and when
\nthings are going well, that’s <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:42,000 –> 00:37:45,400
\nthe last time we’re reaching out
\nto the almighty because things <\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:50,500
\nare going well, But our aches,
\nor pains our troubles are <\/p>\n
515
\n00:37:50,500 –> 00:37:53,700
\nheartbreaks, they drive us to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:37:55,500 –> 00:38:01,500
\nThey drive us to cry out to him
\nto get close to him, to draw <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:01,500 –> 00:38:06,200
\nhim, close to us.
\nThat that’s what this is saying.<\/p>\n
518
\n00:38:07,000 –> 00:38:08,700
\nIn those good days.
\nWe rejoice. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:38:09,800 –> 00:38:14,900
\nBut know that God has spliced
\ninto our lives. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:15,300 –> 00:38:19,700
\nThose darker threads that come
\nup and out into the tapestry. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:21,700 –> 00:38:30,500
\nTragedy trauma loss grief,
\nbetrayal disappointment <\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:31,100 –> 00:38:35,700
\nheartache.
\nHe’s allowed and sometimes put <\/p>\n
523
\n00:38:35,700 –> 00:38:42,000
\nthose things there to drive us
\nto him. and to keep him in our <\/p>\n
524
\n00:38:42,000 –> 00:38:49,400
\nminds and in our hearts, He goes
\non and we read in verse 19 <\/p>\n
525
\n00:38:50,300 –> 00:38:55,900
\nwisdom strengthens the wise more
\nthan 10 Mighty Men, which are in<\/p>\n
526
\n00:38:55,900 –> 00:38:59,400
\nthe city for.
\nThere’s not a just man upon <\/p>\n
527
\n00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:05,400
\nEarth that doeth good and Sins,
\nNot So for people, that believe <\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:05,500 –> 00:39:09,800
\noutside, that it is possible to
\nlive a life without sin. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:15,800
\nWell God doesn’t agree with you.
\nBecause God inspired Solomon to <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:18,900
\nwrite this.
\nAnd the same way as God inspired<\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:22,300
\nthe Lord to say there is none.
\nGood, not one. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:22,500 –> 00:39:27,100
\nWhy are you calling me good?
\nAnd he was the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:27,100 –> 00:39:32,900
\nChrist.
\nSo sin sin is part and parcel of<\/p>\n
534
\n00:39:32,900 –> 00:39:34,900
\nour life and the experience of
\nit. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:39:35,900 –> 00:39:39,200
\nVerse 23, all this have.
\nI proved by wisdom and I said I <\/p>\n
536
\n00:39:39,200 –> 00:39:45,700
\nwill be wise, I was far from me,
\nit was for that, Which is far <\/p>\n
537
\n00:39:45,700 –> 00:39:50,400
\noff and exceeding deep, who can
\nfind it out, I cannot figure. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:54,300
\nGod, out I’ve tried.
\nAnd I’ve tried, I can’t figure <\/p>\n
539
\n00:39:54,300 –> 00:39:57,100
\nhim out.
\nThat’s deliberate. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:39:58,200 –> 00:40:00,400
\nGod does not want to be figured
\nout by you. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:01,800 –> 00:40:06,000
\nGod wants you to trust him.
\nAnd believe in him. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:07,400 –> 00:40:13,700
\nAnd have confidence in him.
\nIt says verse 27. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:14,700 –> 00:40:21,900
\nLook, this is something I found
\nCounting things up, one-by-one <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:21,900 –> 00:40:23,900
\nto figure things out and how
\nthey work. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:25,800 –> 00:40:29,300
\nHe says.
\nI’ve looked all around. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:30,100 –> 00:40:36,800
\nI have not found one wise man
\namong a thousand. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:38,900 –> 00:40:41,200
\nAnd then sisters, fasten your
\nseatbelts okay. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:43,300 –> 00:40:46,600
\nPlease do not elbow the poor man
\nbeside you. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:47,500 –> 00:40:52,000
\nThat’s sharp elbow of yours but
\na woman among all those have I <\/p>\n
550
\n00:40:52,000 –> 00:40:53,600
\nnot found now.
\nStop stop. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:57,700
\nStop stop.
\nI know Sister Toni is ready to <\/p>\n
552
\n00:40:57,700 –> 00:41:00,700
\nthrow her him book right up to
\nthe front right now. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:41:03,200 –> 00:41:07,800
\nWhat he’s saying is this?
\nWhy is people are exceedingly <\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:10,900
\ndifficult?
\nI felt so few of them, did he? <\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:10,900 –> 00:41:13,400
\nNot believe that.
\nThere were women who were wise? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:13,800 –> 00:41:18,400
\nWell, he wrote Proverbs 31.
\nAll about the virtuous woman. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:20,600 –> 00:41:23,500
\nIt could be that the kind of
\nwomen, he surrounded himself <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:23,500 –> 00:41:34,900
\nwith 700 wives and 300,
\nconcubines that’s girls, you <\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:34,900 –> 00:41:39,400
\nplay around with and don’t have
\na close relationship with 1,000.<\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:40,100 –> 00:41:45,100
\nHe collected them like stamps
\nand just like stamps or passing <\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:45,200 –> 00:41:47,600
\nthird one there yet, let’s look
\nat the next page. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:41:49,500 –> 00:41:52,200
\nNo relationship.
\nThis was an altogether. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:57,600
\nLonely, man.
\nHe found very few wise people <\/p>\n
564
\n00:41:58,300 –> 00:42:01,100
\nand of the women he accumulated
\nwill wisdom was not an <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:02,500
\nattribute.
\nHe was looking for. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:42:03,200 –> 00:42:07,700
\nNo wonder, he couldn’t find one.
\nBut he knew that they were out <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:07,700 –> 00:42:12,100
\nthere. throughout scripture, we
\nhave wonderful Wise, Women <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:12,500 –> 00:42:19,300
\nstarting with Eve, And all the
\nway through to our sisters here <\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:19,300 –> 00:42:22,400
\nin this room.
\nRight beside you, brother. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:23,500 –> 00:42:28,000
\nRight beside you.
\nNow, some stupid <\/p>\n
571
\n00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:32,700
\nchristadelphians interpreters
\nhave taken that to mean that men<\/p>\n
572
\n00:42:32,700 –> 00:42:36,000
\nare naturally more wise than
\nwomen and wisdom. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:36,300 –> 00:42:43,000
\nWisdom is lacking in sisters.
\nThat is an altogether idiotic <\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:45,900
\nman.
\nWho wrote that I will not <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:45,900 –> 00:42:48,500
\ndignify that with anything other
\nthan the disease of. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:48,800 –> 00:42:54,100
\nHe’s just a fool.
\nAnd it betrays a mindset towards<\/p>\n
577
\n00:42:54,100 –> 00:42:58,200
\nwomen that will then play itself
\nout and how he treats his wife, <\/p>\n
578
\n00:42:58,400 –> 00:43:02,500
\nhis daughters, his mother, his
\nsisters, and the women in the <\/p>\n
579
\n00:43:02,500 –> 00:43:06,600
\nEcclesia.
\nWe could not make it without our<\/p>\n
580
\n00:43:06,600 –> 00:43:10,200
\nsisters.
\nSisters are like nurses and the <\/p>\n
581
\n00:43:10,200 –> 00:43:14,200
\nHealthcare System.
\nIt isn’t the fancy surgeons and <\/p>\n
582
\n00:43:14,200 –> 00:43:17,700
\ntheir big fat Eagles who hold
\nthe Healthcare System together. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:43:18,500 –> 00:43:22,900
\nIt is the nurses.
\nThat’s the same with our sisters<\/p>\n
584
\n00:43:22,900 –> 00:43:27,300
\nin our colleges.
\nAnd in our families and in our <\/p>\n
585
\n00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:31,500
\nlives and so whatever.
\nHe may have written in that <\/p>\n
586
\n00:43:31,500 –> 00:43:36,200
\nmoment of peak, remember he
\nwrote it as a flawed individual <\/p>\n
587
\n00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:38,400
\nGod lets it stay right in the
\ntext. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:43:39,500 –> 00:43:44,200
\nIt’s right there for us to see.
\nWe are surrounded by Wise Women.<\/p>\n
589
\n00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:48,400
\nAnd Men, We need to be grateful
\nfor them. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:43:49,600 –> 00:43:54,400
\nWe need to honor them.
\nWe need to seek their counsel to<\/p>\n
591
\n00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:57,900
\nadvise their feedback, their
\ninput. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:02,600
\nYes, the buck stops with us.
\nWe cannot throw that yoke off <\/p>\n
593
\n00:44:02,600 –> 00:44:08,800
\nour necks. but we need to treat
\nour sisters as partners in our <\/p>\n
594
\n00:44:08,800 –> 00:44:12,300
\nEcclesia has They have much to
\noffer. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:44:13,500 –> 00:44:17,800
\nMuch wisdom to share.
\nSolomon, didn’t have any like <\/p>\n
596
\n00:44:17,800 –> 00:44:21,800
\nthat around him.
\nEvery Ecclesia is filled with <\/p>\n
597
\n00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:22,600
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