Bro John Pople, from the series “Growing Closer to GOD” which was given at the 2015 New Zealand Bible School, class 4 was used for GCT episode #224<\/p>\n
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\nThird period speaker is Brother
\nJohn poeple. <\/p>\n
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\nOn growing closer to God.
\nThe subtitle for today is give <\/p>\n
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\nto the poor, this is the third
\ntalk in the series and the <\/p>\n
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\nintroductory reading for this
\ntalk is Luke chapter 3 verses 1 <\/p>\n
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\nto 14.
\nBrother John. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s all right.
\nOh hello. <\/p>\n
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\nYo, let’s go again.
\nOh well, Well, the light’s gone,<\/p>\n
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\nbut the sound is still there.
\nThat’s all we need tentatively. <\/p>\n
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\nGood evening.
\nNow this evening, open up that <\/p>\n
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\nforward.
\nI’m aware that some of you being<\/p>\n
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\non a nice pleasant stroll.
\nOthers of you have been on a <\/p>\n
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\nstrenuous hike to the pillars of
\nHercules or biet songs pillars <\/p>\n
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\nand songs Hercules.
\nBut either way that being the <\/p>\n
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\ncase bodies are a little more
\ntired and as Serendipity or <\/p>\n
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\nFrench has had it.
\nThis talk is probably a little <\/p>\n
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\nbit shorter than the others so I
\nthink that’s appropriate for our<\/p>\n
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\nslightly more exhausted State
\ngive to the poor. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first talk, we looked at
\nRuth, the second talk, we looked<\/p>\n
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\nat Jacob, this one is actually
\nharder to fit into that simple. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s look at a Bible character
\nand track his or her progress. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to be bouncing off a
\ncommand very much given from <\/p>\n
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\nJohn the Baptist and later ones
\nfrom Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if we’re really watching In
\nthe progress of anyone, perhaps,<\/p>\n
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\nin this talk, we’re watching the
\nprogress of ourselves, having <\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the lives of others,
\nwe bring this a little closer to<\/p>\n
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\nhome.
\nThis talk was originally asked <\/p>\n
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\nfor requested at the Cambodian
\nBible School, a few years ago <\/p>\n
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\nand under this idea of how can
\nwe grow closer to God? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd these are the very early
\nthoughts that I had. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was 2011, I think and
\nthereabouts. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I had the opportunity to go
\nto Hawaii, which is very nice, <\/p>\n
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\nvaguely, on sort of church
\nbusiness, you might say, but at <\/p>\n
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\none point I had about, Hours to
\nmyself before I was going to <\/p>\n
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\nmeet up with the rest of the
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I took myself off to the
\nbeach since it was a tiny Island<\/p>\n
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\nand the beaches are lovely and I
\nlay on the beach and I thought <\/p>\n
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\nwell, this is great.
\nThis is lovely, but I wonder if <\/p>\n
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\nI can be using this time
\nprofitably as well. and so I <\/p>\n
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\nprayed and I said to God, you
\nknow, I’m trying to develop <\/p>\n
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\nthoughts that would be useful
\nfor myself and there by <\/p>\n
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\nextension to others on how to
\ngrow closer to the father closer<\/p>\n
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\nto you since I was praying and
\nI’m receptive, I’m receptive, <\/p>\n
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\nI’m listening, speak to me.
\nI don’t hear words or see <\/p>\n
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\nVisions, but these types of
\nprayers have been successful <\/p>\n
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\nbefore.
\nAnd within seconds, I wasn’t <\/p>\n
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\neven surprised.
\nI began to hear a dialogue. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a few minutes later, I took
\na photograph of those who were <\/p>\n
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\nspeaking and they’re shown just
\nthere and though I never met <\/p>\n
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\nthese people.
\nIt seemed clear from their <\/p>\n
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\ndialogue.
\nThat one was a father And the <\/p>\n
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\nother was a son, which was, of
\ncourse, ideal, and they’re out <\/p>\n
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\nthere in the water that water
\ntemperatures probably about 25 <\/p>\n
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\ndegrees.
\nIt’s just delightful, and <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re just splashing around.
\nBut in actual fact, it became <\/p>\n
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\nfairly clear.
\nThat the father was trying to <\/p>\n
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\nteach the Sun, how to swim, and
\nfrom what I could observe, the <\/p>\n
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\nsun’s ability to swim was
\nalready pretty good. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it was a pretty relaxed time
\nin the sun was swimming, quite <\/p>\n
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\nproficiently in any event, but
\nthe father was still giving tips<\/p>\n
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\nand Vice and strategies and this
\nis how the game worked. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sun would be sent away from
\nthe father, probably only as far<\/p>\n
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\nas here or maybe a little bit
\nfurther and then the father <\/p>\n
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\nwould call out a swimming style
\nbreaststroke front, crawl, <\/p>\n
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\nwhatever.
\nAnd then the sun would have to <\/p>\n
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\nperform that swimming stroke to
\nget all the way back to the <\/p>\n
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\nfather without his feet touching
\nthe ground. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as I say he was doing very
\nwell, he didn’t really have any <\/p>\n
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\ndifficulties.
\nBut there was one point at which<\/p>\n
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\nthe sun did have some
\ndifficulties. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was one stroke that he
\njust wasn’t particularly <\/p>\n
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\ncomfortable with and it was very
\neducational. <\/p>\n
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\nI wonder if you can guess what
\nthat stroke was and why I’m <\/p>\n
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\nsorry, it was butterfly, would
\nwould be the most mechanically <\/p>\n
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\ncomplex, but being that he is
\nYoung and limber. <\/p>\n
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\nUnlike myself in every respect,
\nhe did that quite well. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the backstroke.
\nI heard that called out. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd can you imagine why he had
\ndifficulty with the backstroke? <\/p>\n
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\nHe couldn’t see his father and
\nhe didn’t seem to have physical <\/p>\n
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\ndeficiency in performing The
\nStroke, but it was evident <\/p>\n
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\nastonishingly that he became
\nnervous because he couldn’t see <\/p>\n
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\nhis dad, as he was trying to
\nnavigate from just from here, to<\/p>\n
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\nthere up to his father.
\nAnd I thought how astonishing is<\/p>\n
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\nthat it was fairly obvious.
\nHis dad hadn’t gone and my dad <\/p>\n
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\nprobably would have done but it
\nwas different story but his dad <\/p>\n
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\nhadn’t left.
\nAnd in fact, his dad was quite <\/p>\n
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\ncommonly cording calling audio
\nencouragement to the Sun to keep<\/p>\n
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\ngoing, and he needed to do it
\nmore whenever it was backstroke.<\/p>\n
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\nBut none of the other times
\nyou’ve already deduced. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy?
\nBecause he couldn’t see his <\/p>\n
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\nfather.
\nSo the sun felt reassured by the<\/p>\n
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\npresence of the father as long
\nas he could see him. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sun felt close to the father
\nwhen the father was visible. <\/p>\n
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\nYet the father was close,
\nwhether or not the sun was doing<\/p>\n
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\nbackstroke and therefore sort of
\nlooking at the sky and I <\/p>\n
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\nthought, what an interesting
\nlesson I’ve never seen a direct <\/p>\n
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\nmanifestation of the person of
\nGod and I imagine you haven’t <\/p>\n
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\neither.
\nAnd so perhaps it’s <\/p>\n
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\nunderstandable that we like this
\nlittle boy every now and again <\/p>\n
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\nwill become downhearted or
\ndisconcerted, or simply anxious.<\/p>\n
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\nMy dad really there, and yet
\nwe’ve had so many occasions in <\/p>\n
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\nour lives.
\nWhen we knew he was there. <\/p>\n
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\nDo we think he just left in the
\ninterim? <\/p>\n
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\nThat cannot be.
\nSo this little boy is struggles <\/p>\n
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\nseemed to mirror our own in that
\nrespect that the moment. <\/p>\n
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\nThe vision was taken away, he
\nbecame worried not panicked, <\/p>\n
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\nparticularly but a little bit
\nworried. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so there was the assurance
\nthat I thought that that whilst <\/p>\n
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\nI was almost not critical of the
\nboy, but I was thinking how can <\/p>\n
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\nyou worry that your father’s
\ngone when you saw him 15 seconds<\/p>\n
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\nago?
\nThen I thought that’s what God’s<\/p>\n
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\ntelling me.
\nWhy are you ever anxious that <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve suddenly left?
\nGiven that you’ve had so many <\/p>\n
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\nexperiences when you knew I was
\nclose by. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy would I have wandered off?
\nThat’s not what I do. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m a better father even than
\nthis father and he didn’t wander<\/p>\n
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\noff either.
\nAnd the more I watch them and <\/p>\n
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\nMario appreciated that.
\nAnd then the more I began to <\/p>\n
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\nthink about the father’s
\nfeelings to having focused first<\/p>\n
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\nupon the son.
\nThe father quite frankly was <\/p>\n
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\nsimply having a great time.
\nHe was loving it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was loving having this some
\ntime away, perhaps in the rest <\/p>\n
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\nof the family, just some some
\ndaddy, daddy son time. <\/p>\n
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\nBut part of the reason that he
\nwas enjoying, it was clearly <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the sun was doing what
\nhe was told. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the father’s style of
\ngame, but imagine if the father <\/p>\n
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\nhad said, okay, son this time
\nswim back out to where you go <\/p>\n
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\nand let’s do some breaststroke
\nand the sun’s swam out there and<\/p>\n
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\nthen just walked out of the sea
\nand started building sand <\/p>\n
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\ncastles and saying Dad, I’m
\nswimming out is rubbish. <\/p>\n
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\nI want to build sandcastles
\nWould the father stopped loving <\/p>\n
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\nthe sun?
\nNo, of course not. <\/p>\n
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\nBut would the father have the
\nsame degree of enjoyment in that<\/p>\n
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\nswimming time that he’d clearly
\nplanned? <\/p>\n
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\nIf the sun decided to build
\nsandcastles instead? <\/p>\n
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\nHe would probably be a little
\nbit wounded, a little bit hurt, <\/p>\n
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\nno, big deal, but a little less
\nfun, the father, felt close to <\/p>\n
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\nthe sun because they were
\nworking together on the father’s<\/p>\n
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\nplan.
\nSo the closeness between the <\/p>\n
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\nfather and son was maintained by
\nthe sun’s obedience to the <\/p>\n
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\nfather’s plan.
\nI’m sure there was no great plan<\/p>\n
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\nof Roth or retribution.
\nIf the sun ever decided to do <\/p>\n
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\nsomething different.
\nThat’s not how this father <\/p>\n
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\nseemed to operate.
\nHow much less than is that how <\/p>\n
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\nour fathers plans to operate?
\nNevertheless, as long as they <\/p>\n
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\nplayed the father’s game, the
\nfather was as joyful as the sun <\/p>\n
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\nwas Was.
\nIn the years that have elapsed <\/p>\n
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\nsince not too many I guess just
\nfor I’ve seldom seen a better <\/p>\n
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\nexample than the one I prayed
\nfor and saw 18 seconds later <\/p>\n
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\nwatching the father and the son
\nenjoying their time being close <\/p>\n
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\ntogether.
\nThe lessons from this obvious, <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re spelled out on the
\nscreen as they stand. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can be closest to this to the
\nfather when we are cooperating <\/p>\n
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\nwith his plan, that brings him,
\npleasure and enjoyment. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
\nSo okay, let’s get closer to God<\/p>\n
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\nthen it’s not a swimming lesson.
\nSo what are we supposed to do in<\/p>\n
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\nPractical tangible terms?
\nLuckily this question exists in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible and we’ve taken thanks
\nbrother Aunt the very reading <\/p>\n
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\nthat gives us the answer John
\nthe Baptist explains produce <\/p>\n
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\nfruit in keeping with repentance
\nthat’s still an abstract answer.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat do you mean says the crowd.
\nWell, John answered anyone who <\/p>\n
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\nhas two shirts, should share
\nwith the one who has none and <\/p>\n
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\nanyone who has food should do
\nthe same, don’t collect any more<\/p>\n
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\nthan you are required.
\nTo he says to the tax collectors<\/p>\n
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\nand to the soldiers he says
\ndon’t extort money and don’t <\/p>\n
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\naccuse people falsely and be
\ncontent with your wages. <\/p>\n
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\nDoes that make sense?
\nIf you got that, got it. <\/p>\n
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\nGood.
\nYou sure because now I’m going <\/p>\n
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\nThen come follow me.
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\ngiving to the poor, that’s not
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\nmodern colloquialism.
\nThey were fat and happy or <\/p>\n
339
\n00:20:13,600 –> 00:20:16,700
\noverfed and unconcerned that was
\nnumber two. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:20:16,700 –> 00:20:20,000
\nYes, any other Pride?
\nAbsolutely. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:20,000 –> 00:20:22,100
\nIn fact, I think it really shows
\nup twice. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:22,100 –> 00:20:24,700
\nI’ll give you two for that one.
\nI’m sorry. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:26,600 –> 00:20:31,000
\nThey were.
\nAbundance of idleness. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:31,000 –> 00:20:33,700
\nI think, right?
\nI think you’re saying the same <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:33,700 –> 00:20:36,200
\nthing as his brother Warrick
\nsaid that’s in a different <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:36,200 –> 00:20:38,400
\ntranslation that same part of
\nnumber to one. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:38,400 –> 00:20:41,600
\nThat was overfed and unconcerned
\nIdol and wouldn’t get up and <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:41,800 –> 00:20:46,500
\nhelp anyone any other ideas.
\nWe’re missing two. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:48,600 –> 00:20:50,900
\nThere we moral.
\nThey did detestable things it <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:50,900 –> 00:20:52,400
\nsays, yes, that was the last
\none. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:52,400 –> 00:20:55,300
\nWe missing one.
\nIronically the title of the <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:55,300 –> 00:20:57,200
\ntalk.
\nThere we go. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:57,800 –> 00:20:59,100
\nI thought that was easiest one.
\nThere we go. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:59,400 –> 00:21:02,700
\nThey were arrogant.
\nThey were overfed and <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:02,700 –> 00:21:05,300
\nunconcerned that comes out in a
\nvariety of different ways I <\/p>\n
356
\n00:21:05,300 –> 00:21:08,200
\nthink that’s what bro brother
\nWarrick and sister were <\/p>\n
357
\n00:21:08,200 –> 00:21:11,400
\nremembering.
\nThey did not help the poor and <\/p>\n
358
\n00:21:11,400 –> 00:21:14,100
\nneedy.
\nThey were haughty which sounds <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:14,100 –> 00:21:17,300
\nto me very similar to the first
\none and they did detestable <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:17,300 –> 00:21:19,700
\nthings before.
\nMe not doesn’t specify what <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:19,700 –> 00:21:23,800
\nthose detestable things were the
\nvariety of detestable things, <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:23,800 –> 00:21:28,300
\nbut whatever is specified there,
\ntherefore, says God, I did away <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:28,300 –> 00:21:31,900
\nwith them.
\nAs you have seen those five <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:31,900 –> 00:21:36,000
\nreasons and may I suggest you
\nthat actually number 1 and 4 are<\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:36,000 –> 00:21:38,600
\npretty much the same.
\nAnd in fact, number two, and <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:41,600
\nthree are pretty much the same.
\nSo probably only really three <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:41,600 –> 00:21:44,400
\nreasons.
\nThe this one here, this double <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:44,400 –> 00:21:48,500
\nreason, here they themselves.
\nFed themselves to the point of <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:48,500 –> 00:21:51,000
\nbeing satiated.
\nI will suck in my stomach, the <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:51,008 –> 00:21:55,600
\nnext three minutes of this talk
\nand were therefore unconcerned <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:55,600 –> 00:21:58,000
\nwith helping those who didn’t
\nhave enough, which sort of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:58,000 –> 00:22:01,700
\nsegues neatly into the not
\nhelping the poor and needy. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:02,100 –> 00:22:05,900
\nSo in actual fact, a substantial
\nproportion of the reason that <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:05,900 –> 00:22:10,800
\nSodom and Gomorrah were
\ndestroyed was because they <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:10,800 –> 00:22:14,700
\ndidn’t help the poor.
\nThat’s not immediately apparent <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:14,700 –> 00:22:17,900
\nfrom Genesis chapter 19.
\nAnd when you read about the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:17,908 –> 00:22:22,300
\ndestruction in Genesis nap
\nchapter 19, you’re more inclined<\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:22,300 –> 00:22:26,400
\nto surmise that it’s to do with
\nthe violence and the rape. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:26,400 –> 00:22:29,500
\nAnd possibly even the
\nhomosexuality that was that was <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:29,500 –> 00:22:33,200
\ngoing on there that that big
\nimmoral backdrop. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:33,300 –> 00:22:37,400
\nBut when Ezekiel actually lays
\nout the read Reasons from God <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:37,400 –> 00:22:39,600
\nthrough Revelation later, we
\nfind out. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:39,600 –> 00:22:43,200
\nIt’s not exactly what you picked
\nup from Genesis 19 and Us to a <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:43,208 –> 00:22:46,000
\ngood part actually.
\nConcerned about the fact they <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:46,000 –> 00:22:48,900
\nwouldn’t help the poor God
\ndestroyed. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:48,900 –> 00:22:53,200
\nSodom and Gomorrah partly
\nbecause they didn’t help the <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:53,200 –> 00:22:55,000
\npoor.
\nThat’s interesting. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:56,600 –> 00:22:58,500
\nThis one is even more
\nastonishing. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:58,800 –> 00:23:02,800
\nWe’re off the topic of giving to
\nthe poor briefly, briefly, we’re<\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:02,800 –> 00:23:05,000
\ngoing on to the topic of
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:05,000 –> 00:23:09,400
\nEven more unsettling, the idea
\nthat the Israelites in their <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:09,400 –> 00:23:14,300
\nfoolishness would occasionally
\nfollow the practices of the <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:14,300 –> 00:23:18,400
\nammonites who actually
\nsacrificed their children in the<\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:18,400 –> 00:23:21,300
\nfire and burned them as
\nsacrifices to God. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:21,800 –> 00:23:25,500
\nThis is what the Sovereign.
\nLord says will, you defile <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:25,500 –> 00:23:28,800
\nyourselves the Your father’s
\ndead and lust after their vile <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:28,800 –> 00:23:32,900
\nimages, when you offer your
\ngifts, the sacrifice of your <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:32,900 –> 00:23:37,200
\nson’s in the fire, you continue
\nto defile yourselves with all <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:37,200 –> 00:23:41,800
\nyour Idols to this day.
\nAm I to let you inquire of Me O <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:41,800 –> 00:23:46,200
\nHouse of Israel?
\nAs surely as I live declares The<\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:46,200 –> 00:23:50,800
\nSovereign Lord, I will not let
\nyou inquire of me. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:51,300 –> 00:23:55,500
\nThink about what that means.
\nI will not let you inquire of <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:55,500 –> 00:23:57,300
\nme.
\nWhat does that mean? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:57,800 –> 00:24:04,200
\nIn modern terms in my language?
\nThat means I will not hear your <\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:04,200 –> 00:24:07,000
\nprayer, right?
\nThat’s what it means. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:07,500 –> 00:24:12,000
\nAnd fair enough for an offense.
\nSo utterly detestable in fact, <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:12,000 –> 00:24:15,800
\nit’s so detestable not only to
\nGod but also, luckily to our <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:15,800 –> 00:24:17,700
\nculture.
\nIt doesn’t even come into our <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:17,700 –> 00:24:19,800
\nminds.
\nIt’s almost like this is now <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:19,800 –> 00:24:23,600
\nbecoming an abstract and
\nunnecessary warning, no one in <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:23,600 –> 00:24:26,500
\ntheir right.
\nMind in this culture thinks of <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:26,500 –> 00:24:31,100
\nwell perhaps for a few teenagers
\nbut thinks of sacrificing their <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:31,100 –> 00:24:34,500
\nchildren, Children in the fire
\nand the punishment for that is <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:34,500 –> 00:24:36,100
\nthat God won’t hear their
\nprayer. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:36,700 –> 00:24:42,700
\nBut guess what, The same
\npunishment is given to the one <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:42,700 –> 00:24:47,100
\nwho won’t help the poor.
\nIf a man shuts his ears to The <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:47,100 –> 00:24:53,000
\nCry of the poor, he too will cry
\nout and I will not answer him. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:54,300 –> 00:24:56,000
\nNow, why is that interesting is
\nfairly obvious. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:56,000 –> 00:24:57,600
\nWhy?
\nThat’s interesting, if the <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:57,600 –> 00:25:00,800
\npenalty that God gives out is
\nthe same. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:01,400 –> 00:25:06,000
\nThen at some level to God’s
\nthinking, the crimes must be <\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:06,000 –> 00:25:09,200
\ncomparable.
\nIt’s the same penalty, it must <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:09,200 –> 00:25:13,800
\nbe the same magnitude of crime.
\nSo God saying, well, setting <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:13,800 –> 00:25:18,300
\nfire to your sons and killing
\nthem, burning them to death as <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:18,300 –> 00:25:22,200
\nsome sort of sacrifice to God
\nand not giving to the poor. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:22,700 –> 00:25:26,700
\nYeah, that’s about the same.
\nSame crime in my eyes says God, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:26,900 –> 00:25:30,400
\nthat’s pretty astonishing.
\nGod won’t hear the prayers of <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:30,400 –> 00:25:34,800
\nthose who sacrifice children or
\nwon’t give to the poor. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:35,600 –> 00:25:38,800
\nSo that’s what I mean really
\nwhen I was saying I was checking<\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:38,800 –> 00:25:41,900
\nthrough scripture just following
\nthis idea of our encouragement <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:41,900 –> 00:25:44,800
\nto give to the poor.
\nHow incredibly dramatic and <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:44,800 –> 00:25:48,700
\nsevere the cases were in the
\nboth the positive and the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:48,700 –> 00:25:52,600
\nnegative instances, let’s just
\nsummarize them, we’ll start with<\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:52,600 –> 00:25:54,000
\nthe negative so that we can
\nfinish. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:54,100 –> 00:25:57,400
\nPositive.
\nIf we don’t give to the poor, <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:57,400 –> 00:26:01,300
\nsays the Proverbs, our prayers
\nwon’t be heard. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:01,500 –> 00:26:05,600
\nThat’s true in the Proverbs and
\nalso, in Isaiah 58. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:05,600 –> 00:26:09,400
\nI wonder if brilliantly, do you
\nhave enough light there to read?<\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:09,400 –> 00:26:11,600
\nI think you do maps.
\nYou could read for us. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:11,600 –> 00:26:16,000
\nIsaiah 58 and verses 6 to 9,
\nlisten, particularly for the <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:16,000 –> 00:26:21,200
\nlast verse or follow along.
\nIf you can, as I have 58, this <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:21,200 –> 00:26:26,200
\nis six, seven, eight and nine.
\nIs not this, the fast that I <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:26,200 –> 00:26:30,800
\nhave chosen to loose the bands
\nof wickedness to undo the heavy <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:30,800 –> 00:26:34,400
\nburdens, to let the oppressed Go
\nfree that. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:34,400 –> 00:26:39,600
\nYou break every yoke, is it not
\nto deal thy bread to the hungry <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:39,900 –> 00:26:43,500
\nand that thou bring the poor
\nthat are cast out to thy house. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:44,100 –> 00:26:48,200
\nWhen thou seest the naked that
\nthou cover him and that thou <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:48,200 –> 00:26:51,100
\nhide not thyself from thine own
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:55,600
\nThen shall the light Break Forth
\nas the morning and thine Health <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:55,600 –> 00:26:59,600
\nshall spring forth, speedily and
\nthy righteousness shall go <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:59,600 –> 00:27:04,500
\nbefore Thee, the glory of the
\nLord shall be thy rearward. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:08,800
\nAbsolutely.
\nSo those verses are expressing <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:10,500
\nthe same thing in the positive
\nsense. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:14,000
\nWhen you do bring break the
\nshields of shackles of <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:14,000 –> 00:27:17,300
\nOppression for those who are
\npoor, then your righteousness <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:17,300 –> 00:27:21,900
\nWill Spring forth as the morning
\nSodom was destroyed partly <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:21,900 –> 00:27:25,400
\nbecause they did not give to the
\npoor, those are the negative <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:27,900
\nexamples.
\nNow let’s transition happily <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:27,900 –> 00:27:32,000
\ninto the positive examples.
\nGiving to the poor is the way we<\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:35,000
\nbecome clean on the inside says
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:35,600 –> 00:27:39,900
\nGiving to the poor is the way we
\ngain treasure in heaven says <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:39,900 –> 00:27:42,500
\nJesus and there’s an even more
\nstartling. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:42,500 –> 00:27:46,300
\nOne than that found in the
\nPsalms they have freely <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:46,300 –> 00:27:50,100
\nscattered, their gifts to the
\npoor, their righteousness <\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:55,400
\nendures forever.
\nTo cause an ever lasting <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:59,700
\nenduring righteousness.
\nWe merely freely scatter, our <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:59,700 –> 00:28:06,700
\ngifts to the poor.
\nSo then why also give to the <\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:06,700 –> 00:28:08,600
\npoor.
\nThis is a nice conceptual way to<\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:11,100
\nthink about it.
\nI think about God and I think <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:11,100 –> 00:28:14,200
\nabout me the distance between us
\nis so vast. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:14,200 –> 00:28:17,800
\nIt’s silly to put them on the
\nsame screen, but I have nothing,<\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:21,600
\nI am abject leap, or in all
\nthings compared to my God, I <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:21,600 –> 00:28:22,800
\nthink it was Christian who put
\nit? <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:22,800 –> 00:28:27,300
\nArticulately from the scriptures
\nwho said, I don’t even control <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:27,300 –> 00:28:30,100
\nthe next breath that I’m going
\nto take into my nostrils. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:31,100 –> 00:28:34,000
\nJob said something similar.
\nHe says, God, you give me one <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:34,000 –> 00:28:36,400
\nbreath at a time.
\nI’m paraphrasing. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:37,200 –> 00:28:39,600
\nSo that, you know, I just suck
\nin one breath. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:39,600 –> 00:28:44,000
\nAnd I live for that moment and I
\nrely on you for the next moment,<\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:44,300 –> 00:28:48,700
\nand God gives me everything that
\nI need not, perhaps everything <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:48,700 –> 00:28:53,000
\nthat I want, but everything that
\nI need why, then do I give to <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:53,000 –> 00:28:56,500
\nthe poor.
\nWell, in some very limited sense<\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:56,700 –> 00:28:59,000
\nin a sort of a socio economic
\nsense. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:59,300 –> 00:29:03,400
\nThere are people who are a
\nObjectively poor compared to me <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:03,900 –> 00:29:07,200
\nand I, at least in
\nsocio-economic terms and very <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:07,200 –> 00:29:11,400
\nrich compared to some that I
\nmeet even in California who have<\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:11,400 –> 00:29:16,400
\nabsolutely nothing.
\nSo if I give to the abject leap <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:16,400 –> 00:29:21,800
\nor Y, then I’m enacting the same
\nrole that God does every second <\/p>\n
489
\n00:29:21,800 –> 00:29:27,900
\nof every day for me.
\nSo in giving to the poor, God is<\/p>\n
490
\n00:29:27,900 –> 00:29:32,700
\nable to see his reflection.
\nIn us, that’s how we grow closer<\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:32,700 –> 00:29:36,100
\nto God, because God is
\nconstantly giving to the poor. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:36,200 –> 00:29:39,000
\nAnd when we learn and get
\nexcited about doing the same <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:42,600
\nthing, we take up the same image
\nof God. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:43,200 –> 00:29:46,600
\nWhen we think about the image of
\nGod, what particular verse might<\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:46,600 –> 00:29:52,900
\ncome to mind.
\nAbsolutely Genesis 1 verse 26, <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:53,500 –> 00:29:59,100
\nand God made Man In His Image.
\nAnd we’re inclined to think <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:59,100 –> 00:30:03,200
\nabout that as a historical.
\nObservation, God made Man In His<\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:03,200 –> 00:30:06,800
\nImage, but I wonder if it’s
\nappropriate to view that <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:06,800 –> 00:30:11,400
\nsentence as more of a mandate
\nthan an observation. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:11,800 –> 00:30:18,500
\nIn other words, You are man now
\nit’s your job to get into the <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:18,500 –> 00:30:23,600
\nimage of God and by giving to
\nthe poor we take on that image <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:23,700 –> 00:30:26,900
\nso I think that’s as much a
\nmandate as it is a historical <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:26,900 –> 00:30:30,800
\nfact.
\nThe kings of the Gentiles Lord, <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:33,400
\nit over them.
\nYou are not to be like that <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:33,400 –> 00:30:36,100
\nsays, Jesus.
\nInstead, the greatest among you <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:36,100 –> 00:30:39,500
\nshould be like, the youngest,
\nand the one who rules, like, the<\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:39,500 –> 00:30:43,100
\none who serves.
\nThis is how we prepare for the <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:43,100 –> 00:30:47,700
\nkingship that our Lord is happy
\nto give us in that Kingdom age <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:48,500 –> 00:30:51,000
\nas part of my work as a
\nphysicist. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:54,700
\nI drive forklift, trucks
\nsurprising. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:54,700 –> 00:30:57,900
\nWe have heavy equipment needs to
\nbe unloaded at the lab <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:57,900 –> 00:31:01,500
\nsometimes, and I also
\noccasionally machine parts and <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:01,500 –> 00:31:03,000
\nnot a particularly skilled
\nmachinist. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:03,000 –> 00:31:06,000
\nBut I am a trained and qualified
\nmachinist to make Parts on a <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:06,008 –> 00:31:10,200
\nmale or a lathe.
\nSo, I work on a Mill and I make <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:13,300
\nParts.
\nRarely I drive a forklift truck <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:16,300
\nrally.
\nNow, in order to drive the <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:20,400
\nforklift truck, I needed to be
\ntrained big surprise, in order <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:23,400
\nto work on the mill.
\nI needed to be trained. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:25,000 –> 00:31:29,900
\nMy training on the mill, had
\nnothing to do with driving <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:29,900 –> 00:31:34,200
\nforklift trucks, and my training
\nto drive forklift trucks. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:34,500 –> 00:31:36,900
\nHad nothing to do with operating
\non the mail. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:37,500 –> 00:31:39,000
\nI haven’t said anything
\nsurprising yet. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:45,000
\nI hope. so then what is Jesus
\nsaying, if you’re going to be <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:45,000 –> 00:31:51,500
\nKings later serve now, Why, why
\ndo job? <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:51,500 –> 00:31:56,700
\nA in practice to do job?
\nB, y drive, a forklift truck to <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:56,700 –> 00:31:59,400
\nlearn how to use the mill.
\nWhy should i serve? <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:04,500
\nNow, if I’m going to be a king
\nlater, And there’s only one <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:04,500 –> 00:32:08,800
\npossible answer because I’m not
\ngoing to be a king later in the <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:08,800 –> 00:32:14,100
\nway that I’m thinking of King.
\nI learned to serve now because <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:14,100 –> 00:32:18,600
\nI’m going to serve later and
\nthat’s what Jesus means when he <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:23,700
\nsays King the one who serves not
\nbecause those who serve now will<\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:23,700 –> 00:32:27,700
\nrule later.
\nBut because serving is the true <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:27,700 –> 00:32:33,700
\nand proper way to rule, just as
\na parent rules their child, by <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:33,700 –> 00:32:35,700
\nproviding everything that they
\nneed. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:38,200 –> 00:32:40,900
\nPerhaps the best example is God,
\nI love the Book of Job. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:41,500 –> 00:32:44,400
\nI had the privilege to share
\nthoughts on the Book of Job with<\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:44,400 –> 00:32:48,800
\nyouth here, five years ago,
\nstanding on this very spot and <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:48,800 –> 00:32:52,900
\ntherefore I’ve paraphrase wildly
\nfrom Job 38. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:53,100 –> 00:32:57,200
\nSome of the things that God
\nsays, God says, I am Shepherd to<\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:57,200 –> 00:33:01,600
\nthe Stars Chef to the Lions, and
\nRavens, and midwife to the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:01,600 –> 00:33:04,300
\nmountain goats you can
\ninvestigate the passage for <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:04,300 –> 00:33:07,300
\nyourself to see that as he
\nspeaks in great metaphor, he <\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:07,300 –> 00:33:09,700
\nsays the star Was I keep them
\nin. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:09,900 –> 00:33:11,600
\nI’m going to paraphrase quite
\nextensively. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:11,800 –> 00:33:14,000
\nSo, keep them in my garden shed
\nduring the day. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:14,300 –> 00:33:17,300
\nWhen the night time comes, I go
\ndrag them out of the shed, and I<\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:17,300 –> 00:33:19,200
\nput them all.
\nI lead them all into the right <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:19,200 –> 00:33:20,700
\nplace.
\nIt’s like guide them where they <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:20,700 –> 00:33:23,800
\nneed to go.
\nEvery night, beautiful metaphor,<\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:24,100 –> 00:33:27,500
\nthe Lions and the Ravens, they
\nget hungry, I feed them. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:27,900 –> 00:33:30,300
\nI find their food.
\nI hear them making noise of <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:30,300 –> 00:33:33,600
\nhungry hunger and I attend them
\nand I feed them. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:33,700 –> 00:33:35,800
\nI suppose technically you could
\nfeed the Raven to the lion and <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:37,500
\nsolve the problem, but that’s
\nyou know. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:41,700
\nGod is more merciful than that.
\nAnd the mountain goats he said <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:41,700 –> 00:33:45,100
\nI’ve learned to recognize the
\ncry they make when they’re about<\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:45,100 –> 00:33:47,700
\nto give birth.
\nAnd when that mountain goat is <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:47,700 –> 00:33:50,000
\nhalfway up The Cliff face.
\nWho is it? <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:52,500
\nWho hiked up?
\nThere to go and deliver that <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:52,500 –> 00:33:54,200
\nbaby goat?
\nThat’s me says God. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:54,200 –> 00:33:58,200
\nI get my staff and I hiked up
\nthe mountain and I deliver that <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:58,200 –> 00:34:03,300
\nbaby goat.
\nI rule this universe because I <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:03,300 –> 00:34:07,900
\nserve this universe because it
\nis my pleasure to give life. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:08,000 –> 00:34:11,000
\nAnd breath to all things as I
\nwill. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:17,500
\nSo as we learn to serve it
\nchanges us, we develop God’s <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:21,800
\ntrait of loving service because
\nthe proper way to rule is the <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:26,199
\nway to serve.
\nAs an aside, I have the same lab<\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:28,600
\nwhere I work.
\nHe retired very recently but I <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:28,600 –> 00:34:32,199
\nhad a very eccentric friend, his
\nname was Tom and he understood <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:32,199 –> 00:34:36,199
\nthis principle very clearly.
\nHe would describe himself as a <\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:41,500
\nChristian Buddhist and other
\nsuch insane contradictions. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:41,500 –> 00:34:46,600
\nBut anyway, he was a lovely man,
\nstill is, and he would, he <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:48,900
\nunderstood the idea of rulership
\nthrough service. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:51,699
\nAnd so he be walking along and
\nwe said, Tom, don’t do this <\/p>\n
576
\n00:34:51,699 –> 00:34:55,500
\nagain and he be walking along
\nand with a new director of the <\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:55,500 –> 00:35:00,600
\nlab, And the lab is about 2,000
\npeople, and Tom and probably <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:03,100
\nmyself or the lowliest of all
\nand he’s walking alongside with <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:03,100 –> 00:35:07,400
\nthe director and he’d say, so
\nthis is this is your place. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:09,500
\nThis is your lab.
\nYou think this is yours and the <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:09,700 –> 00:35:11,500
\ndirector was so we are and
\nsomeone. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:11,500 –> 00:35:14,000
\nSo why pick up the trash?
\nWe just walk past the piece. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:17,900
\nAnd that’s what he would, send.
\nThe director didn’t really know <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:17,900 –> 00:35:19,400
\nwhat to do and say hi.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:21,300
\nYes.
\nYes, I heard about you and sort <\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:21,300 –> 00:35:26,500
\nof go on But Tom was absolutely
\nright, and that’s what Tom would<\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:26,500 –> 00:35:28,400
\ndo and Tom would always pick up
\nthe trash. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:28,400 –> 00:35:31,100
\nEven though he went, he worked
\ninto his 70s and his back was no<\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:31,100 –> 00:35:33,500
\ngood.
\nHe would still stoop down and <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:33,500 –> 00:35:35,300
\npick up every piece of trash.
\nWhy are you picking up the <\/p>\n
591
\n00:35:35,300 –> 00:35:37,100
\ntrash?
\nTom is my lab. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:35:37,300 –> 00:35:39,200
\nI own this lab.
\nIt’s all mine. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:35:39,300 –> 00:35:42,000
\nI pick up the trash and he’s
\nabsolutely, right. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:46,000
\nAnd if we want to not out of a
\nsense of power and control, but <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:46,000 –> 00:35:50,000
\nto please our father and to play
\nalong with the plan, our father <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:50,000 –> 00:35:52,600
\nhas for us.
\nWe’re going to own this rule, <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:55,600
\nwe’re going to own This world.
\nLet’s pick up the trash. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:55,800 –> 00:35:59,000
\nLet’s feed the poor.
\nLet’s feed the hungry and take <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:59,000 –> 00:36:01,400
\ncare of every service items
\nneeded. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:01,400 –> 00:36:03,900
\nLet’s deliver the mountain
\ngoats, so to speak. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:08,000
\nWhat then can I learn from my
\nexperience? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:11,400
\nSo having concluded this study,
\nit was a personal study at the <\/p>\n
603
\n00:36:11,400 –> 00:36:13,100
\ntime, although obviously I’ve
\nshared it publicly. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:36:13,100 –> 00:36:16,500
\nNow, I went back to my Ecclesia
\nand I dug out. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:18,000
\nIt didn’t take very long, it’s
\ngoing to sound like this was a <\/p>\n
606
\n00:36:18,008 –> 00:36:21,600
\ngargantuan task, but it wasn’t
\nand I dug out all the calendars <\/p>\n
607
\n00:36:21,600 –> 00:36:25,200
\nand schedules that we had for a
\ndecade for the years, 2001 <\/p>\n
608
\n00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:28,700
\nthrough 2010.
\nAnd I looked at every single <\/p>\n
609
\n00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:30,700
\nmeeting that we’d had every
\nMemorial meeting. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:36:30,700 –> 00:36:33,100
\nEvery Bible class, every
\ncommittee meeting every special <\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:36,600
\neffort, every fraternal, every
\ngoodness knows, Up every Sunday <\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:36,600 –> 00:36:41,400
\nschool outing and I said well is
\nat least one every time we come <\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:41,400 –> 00:36:45,600
\ntogether we do so to do at least
\none and usually more than one of<\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:47,900
\nthese six things are either
\ndeclaring. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:47,900 –> 00:36:52,200
\nThe gospel studying, the Bible
\nsocializing taking Bread and <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:52,200 –> 00:36:55,900
\nWine in memory of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, helping the poor or <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:55,900 –> 00:36:59,400
\npraising God.
\nAnd so there was more than went <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:01,700
\ninto four figures.
\nMaybe about two thousand data <\/p>\n
619
\n00:37:01,700 –> 00:37:05,500
\npoints.
\nWent into how many times? <\/p>\n
620
\n00:37:05,600 –> 00:37:09,500
\nAs we done each of these things
\nand I made a pie chart because <\/p>\n
621
\n00:37:09,500 –> 00:37:11,000
\nthat’s what real science is all
\nabout. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:17,400
\nSo look at nice and there it is.
\nAnd that’s how our Ecclesia. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:37:18,500 –> 00:37:22,400
\nAt least those outside of prison
\nhad been conducting themselves <\/p>\n
624
\n00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:27,600
\nover a 10-year period.
\nSo see, big fat chunk of yellow <\/p>\n
625
\n00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:32,300
\nat studying the Bible and red
\nand green and blue are all <\/p>\n
626
\n00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:35,500
\nsocializing very important.
\nI like that and bread and wine. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:37:35,700 –> 00:37:37,900
\nYou and praising.
\nThere was a fair chunk but <\/p>\n
628
\n00:37:37,900 –> 00:37:40,800
\norange was fairly slivered.
\nI was surprised by that myself <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:43,400
\nbut that is how it came out to
\ndeclare the gospel and the <\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:43,400 –> 00:37:46,800
\npurple one helping the poor.
\nCan you see the purple that it’s<\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:46,800 –> 00:37:50,700
\nright, there is a little sliver.
\nAnd out of something like <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:50,700 –> 00:37:53,800
\neighteen hundred events.
\nHow many times had we actually <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:58,000
\ncome together as an Ecclesia for
\nthe express purpose of helping <\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:58,000 –> 00:38:01,900
\nthe poor and the answer in 10
\nyears was guess. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:07,000
\nTo thank you so much.
\nYes, we didn’t quite hit that <\/p>\n
636
\n00:38:07,000 –> 00:38:11,200
\nlofty height.
\nZero was the answer for the. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:14,000
\nI’m sure many of our brothers
\nand sisters are wonderful and go<\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:14,000 –> 00:38:16,100
\noff and do many charitable
\nworks. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:16,300 –> 00:38:19,500
\nI’m talking about the times
\nwe’ve come together as an <\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:19,500 –> 00:38:23,800
\nEcclesia deliberately designed
\nso for the year of 2011, in <\/p>\n
641
\n00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:27,400
\norder to make a substantial
\ndifference, that was our <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:29,900
\nactivity.
\nAnd that was actually it doesn’t<\/p>\n
643
\n00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:32,700
\nlook much different, does it,
\nbut it really was quite a <\/p>\n
644
\n00:38:32,707 –> 00:38:34,500
\ndifference.
\nAnd we Put some effort into <\/p>\n
645
\n00:38:34,500 –> 00:38:37,300
\nhaving several obviously.
\nWhat I could hardly ever say <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:37,300 –> 00:38:40,500
\nmany several meetings
\ndeliberately coming together as <\/p>\n
647
\n00:38:40,500 –> 00:38:44,500
\nan Ecclesia for the express
\npurpose of amongst other things,<\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:47,100
\nhelping the poor.
\nSo we got we got the purple <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:47,100 –> 00:38:50,900
\nsliver off the ground and that
\nwas a wonderful exercise. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:50,900 –> 00:38:54,100
\nIn a wonderful thing to be
\ninvolved with the members of my <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:54,300 –> 00:38:57,400
\nclosure are very wonderful,
\nbrothers and sisters and I look <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:57,400 –> 00:39:00,100
\nup to him in that.
\nRespect the yellow one was <\/p>\n
653
\n00:39:00,100 –> 00:39:02,900
\nperhaps slightly larger than
\nmost of the others that seems to<\/p>\n
654
\n00:39:02,900 –> 00:39:04,900
\ngot larger.
\nI don’t know how that happened. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:39:04,900 –> 00:39:08,400
\nReally, but what’s the ideal
\ndistribution? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:39:08,500 –> 00:39:11,700
\nI don’t know, that’s just an
\nequal distribution. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:39:11,800 –> 00:39:14,000
\nIs that the ideal all six of
\nthese? <\/p>\n
658
\n00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:16,500
\nThings seem very important when
\nI think about them. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:16,700 –> 00:39:20,300
\nSo I wonder if that’s sort of
\nthe sort of cheese pie chart <\/p>\n
660
\n00:39:20,300 –> 00:39:23,400
\nthat we should be aiming for
\nthere but we’re getting at least<\/p>\n
661
\n00:39:23,700 –> 00:39:27,500
\nsome things growing in order to
\nsort of get them off the ground.<\/p>\n
662
\n00:39:27,500 –> 00:39:31,600
\nSo that was a very practical way
\nto put this theoretical learning<\/p>\n
663
\n00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:38,200
\ninto action.
\nAs a community as an Ecclesia as<\/p>\n
664
\n00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:41,000
\na community.
\nAlso I think we’re theologically<\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:43,500
\nvery active.
\nThat’s right and proper and it <\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:43,500 –> 00:39:46,700
\nshould be that way.
\nWe think about God, we don’t <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:46,700 –> 00:39:50,300
\njust talk about God, we think
\nabout God, we communicate with <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:50,300 –> 00:39:55,500
\ngod with theologically active,
\nwe learn new things about God, I<\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:55,500 –> 00:39:57,300
\ndo all the time.
\nEvery time I look in the Bible <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:57,300 –> 00:40:01,600
\nalmost and in that sense, I kind
\nof liken us to a university and <\/p>\n
671
\n00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,800
\nthat’s a good thing.
\nThat’s a praiseworthy thing. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:40:04,900 –> 00:40:08,700
\nOur She is X well as a
\nuniversity, but I wonder if, as <\/p>\n
673
\n00:40:08,700 –> 00:40:12,400
\nwell as a university, we should
\nalso have the ability to be a <\/p>\n
674
\n00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:16,400
\nhospital to be passed orally
\nactive to take care of the <\/p>\n
675
\n00:40:16,408 –> 00:40:20,200
\nbroken to bind up, the
\nBrokenhearted principally of our<\/p>\n
676
\n00:40:20,200 –> 00:40:25,700
\nown members but also outside.
\nSo equally, I think we should be<\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:25,800 –> 00:40:28,700
\nthe ideal, it clears.
\nYou would perhaps be half <\/p>\n
678
\n00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:32,200
\nUniversity and half hospital and
\nI think we do very well at the <\/p>\n
679
\n00:40:32,200 –> 00:40:35,600
\nUniversity aspects.
\nAnd I wonder how well we do at <\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:35,700 –> 00:40:38,800
\nat the hospital aspects.
\nPerhaps we need to be a just a <\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:38,800 –> 00:40:41,500
\nlittle bit more active in our
\nwork there. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:43,700 –> 00:40:48,000
\nHow can I learn from my
\nexperience in literal terms? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:52,300
\nTo give to the poor.
\nThat’s just one idea. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:52,400 –> 00:40:54,900
\nAnd that’s the idea I’ve been
\nfollowing since this time. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:58,200
\nIt’s a bag.
\nIt’s a gallon, ziplock bag and <\/p>\n
686
\n00:40:58,200 –> 00:41:00,800
\ninto it.
\nGoes water food. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:04,100
\nThat will keep esperan.
\nThat’s a toothbrush. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:41:04,100 –> 00:41:06,700
\nAnd toothpaste is other
\ncleansing products. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:41:06,700 –> 00:41:08,700
\nThere’s a total of ten things in
\nthere and I forget what there <\/p>\n
690
\n00:41:08,700 –> 00:41:11,200
\nis.
\nNo, also a card from our church,<\/p>\n
691
\n00:41:11,200 –> 00:41:14,600
\nat least giving our address
\nwhere we meet and I keep that <\/p>\n
692
\n00:41:14,600 –> 00:41:18,800
\nthat will fit in the inside door
\npocket of a car. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:41:19,000 –> 00:41:21,100
\nCows.
\nJust regular sedan car. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:21,300 –> 00:41:23,000
\nYou can shove that in the door
\npocket. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:23,200 –> 00:41:26,300
\nWhy?
\nBecause I’m tired of being so <\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:26,300 –> 00:41:29,300
\nhypocritical that I give talks
\nlike this and then when I’m <\/p>\n
697
\n00:41:29,300 –> 00:41:32,500
\ndriving along and I come to a
\ntraffic light a stoplight and <\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:32,500 –> 00:41:35,400
\nthere’s someone begging on the
\nside of the road and I do this <\/p>\n
699
\n00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:38,500
\nappalling thing.
\nIf I can’t see you, which is <\/p>\n
700
\n00:41:38,500 –> 00:41:44,500
\njust shocking and needs to stop.
\nSo from now on from back in few <\/p>\n
701
\n00:41:44,500 –> 00:41:48,000
\nyears ago, there’s always been
\nthese bags that I make up and <\/p>\n
702
\n00:41:48,000 –> 00:41:50,100
\nmake them up about.
\nG2 time, it costs next to <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:50,100 –> 00:41:53,400
\nnothing and then at least I can
\ngive that bag. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:53,600 –> 00:41:56,700
\nSo you’d need to make one that
\nwas relevant to your <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:56,700 –> 00:42:01,300
\ncircumstances but in California
\nwater, and Sun cream, which I <\/p>\n
706
\n00:42:01,300 –> 00:42:03,800
\nknow is in there are probably
\nthe two most essential things <\/p>\n
707
\n00:42:04,100 –> 00:42:07,400
\nbecause these guys who sit out
\nand beggar absolutely fried <\/p>\n
708
\n00:42:07,400 –> 00:42:10,800
\ntheir skin is complete leather.
\nSo you can tell, they’re not <\/p>\n
709
\n00:42:10,800 –> 00:42:13,600
\nsort of, you know, just trying
\nto pick up free cash and I’ve <\/p>\n
710
\n00:42:13,600 –> 00:42:15,700
\ngot somewhere to live.
\nYou can tell from their skin, <\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:15,900 –> 00:42:18,900
\nthey’ve been outside 24 hours a
\nday for a substantial period. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:18,900 –> 00:42:20,600
\nRid of time.
\nSo there’s just one little <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:20,600 –> 00:42:23,800
\nsuggestion in Practical terms
\nsince we’re trying to make this <\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:27,800
\na practical talk of what we can
\ndo to actually give to the poor <\/p>\n
715
\n00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:31,400
\nin a meaningful way.
\nHow do I gloat grow closer to? <\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:31,400 –> 00:42:36,600
\nGod Ruth said, increase in
\nMercy, spread your wings and <\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:41,000
\nlearn how to fry.
\nJacob said, stop wrestling. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:42:41,700 –> 00:42:44,200
\nStop wrestling.
\nAnd Trust the father, and <\/p>\n
719
\n00:42:44,200 –> 00:42:47,700
\nperhaps John, the Baptist says
\nGive to the poor. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:42:46,800 –> 00:42:47,700
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