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Praise God for that, I appreciate that song.

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Greetings to you all in the name of

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the Lord Jesus.

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On a wonderful morning that we can gather

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and worship the Lord, I'm very thankful to

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have this opportunity again.

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I want to be thankful in all things.

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I think my family is very thankful to

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be here.

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It's just a pleasure to see you all.

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I'm going to share some thoughts, and they're

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going to be relating.

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The description is a bit hard, but it

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would probably have to do with the end

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of Acts chapter 2.

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It would probably relate to some of those

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things about how they lived in peace one

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with another.

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I'm just going to read some scriptures concerning

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that.

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I've been really surprised how much scripture there

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is.

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If you want to seek that out, how

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there are scriptures that speak on the matter

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of living in peace one with another, an

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easy one would be what Jesus said, Blessed

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are the peacemakers, for they will be called

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the children of God.

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Many things we can find through Psalms.

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I didn't really dig into that too much,

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but I'm going to talk on that a

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little bit.

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The first passage will be Luke chapter 10.

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This one will have to do with something

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that caught my attention when I read that

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chapter.

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I think that was kind of the beginning

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of my thought here a couple of weeks

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ago.

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What was this man?

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Here we have Jesus sending out the 70.

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He appointed 70 and sent them out two

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by two.

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One of the first things we see that

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they're supposed to look for is a son

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of peace.

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If you find that, dwell there, and whatever

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he serves, eat it, and so on.

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Then that same kind of account, I believe,

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in Matthew, it's recorded, where Jesus sent out

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his disciples, it says something very similar.

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It says, and I'll read this one, And

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if the house be worthy, let your peas

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come unto it.

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But if it be not worthy, let your

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peas return to you.

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That's what it says in Matthew.

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Now that Luke account, I'm going to read

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a little bit more of the lengthy.

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Well, maybe I'll just read eight verses, but

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Luke chapter 10.

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I'm going to start in here.

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After these things the Lord appointed other 70

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also, and sent them two by two before

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his face into every city and place, whither

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he himself would come.

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Therefore he said unto them, The harvest truly

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is great, but the labors are few.

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Pray ye, therefore, the labor of the harvest,

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that he would send forth labors into his

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harvest.

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Go your ways, behold, I sent you forth

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as lambs among sheep, carry neither purse, nor

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script, nor shoes, nor salute, no man by

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the way.

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And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say,

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Peas, be to this house.

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And if the son of peas be there,

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your peas shall rest upon it.

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If not, it shall return to you again.

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And in the same house remain, eating and

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drinking such things as they give.

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For the labor is worthy of his hire,

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going out from house to house.

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So, my thoughts kind of went from there.

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that, but what would a man like that

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look like?

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that they went out looking for as they

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went from place to place, house to house,

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preaching, teaching?

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concept they had of what they were looking

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for, but it seemed like it's not too

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hard to find some of these examples.

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is these men that Jesus came upon and

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they were just given some, in the beginning

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they were given some pretty good recognition that

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they were trustworthy, faithful men.

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the disciples were supposed to be looking for.

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They had this peace about them that could

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be a beginning point of teaching, preaching.

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I call it a seat bed.

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Like a man of peace has that thing

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that would be the seat bed where the

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message of the kingdom can now grow in

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and prosper.

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I'm not talking about a go-with-the

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-flow kind of peace that the worldly people

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offer and pursue where you just get along

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with everyone and therefore you're a peacemaker.

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It's something very different than that.

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It's a man that is not settled with

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how the world operates.

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And he sees the dangers and the snares

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that the peace of this world wants to

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offer.

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The comfort, just being very wishy-washy.

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What I understand was that they were called

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to be on the guard, on the look,

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like if you find this son of peace,

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if you find him, it's like you'll know

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it and then you'll dwell there.

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Right, but I think we're talking about something

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a bit different here.

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Sure, and I wanted to clarify that too.

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That I'm not talking about a wishy-washy

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peace, let's go on a hike.

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No, this is something where it's like our

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time here is on, we're on a clock.

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We don't know when this thing is going

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to time out.

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We need to make use of the time

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we have and figure out.

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Maybe one of the intents for Jesus to

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tell his disciples this was just don't get

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confused, don't get wrapped up with all kinds

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of different theories and ideas.

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They're just going to blow your day.

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Find this man of peace and dwell there.

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So, actually my first kind of note that

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I put down was Nathaniel and I'm going

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to read that passage.

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Nathaniel was one of those disciples that is

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recorded in John chapter 1 and it's kind

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of an interesting account how that came together

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and what was told to Nathaniel.

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I am going to read John chapter 1

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starting in verse 29.

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It'll lead up to the thing about Nathaniel

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there towards the end and that's where most

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of my thoughts are in, but most of

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this, a lot of this still has to

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do with just a little glimpse maybe of

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how the beginnings were, how the beginnings, some

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of these beginnings were.

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Jesus finding people and like he just saw

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them as the son of peace.

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He just saw them as a man that's

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fit and ready to be taught and that

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will take a hold of the message and

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prosper in it.

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And of course as we look through this,

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we need to remember too that Jesus would

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have this something that we don't necessarily have

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all the time.

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A thorough discernment of like on the moment

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he could tell who's who and what's what

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better than we can.

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Okay, read here, 29.

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The next day John saw Jesus coming toward

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him and said, Look, the Lamb of God

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who takes away the sins of the world.

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He is the one I was talking about

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when I said, A man is coming after

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me who is far greater than I am,

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for he exists long before me.

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I did not recognize him as the Messiah,

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but I have been baptizing with water so

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that he might be revealed to Israel.

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Then John testified, I saw the Spirit descending

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like a dove from heaven and resting upon

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him.

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I didn't know he was the one, but

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when God sent me to baptize with water,

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he told me, The one on whom you

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see the Spirit descend and rest is the

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one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

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I saw this happen to Jesus, so I

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testify that he is the chosen one of

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experience, his walk, how he grew there in

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knowledge and he came to an understanding of

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Jesus being the chosen one.

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I'm reading it because I think it's a

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beautiful thing how these things come together for

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God's people.

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I think as we go through it, it's

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good to remember how it doesn't work that

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way in the world.

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It seems like they cannot unite and they

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don't even try that much to unite underneath

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things.

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They don't put in efforts to make this

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their focus and that's what makes this such

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a shining, glorious thing.

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It's because it's precious and we search hard

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for it and finally we find it.

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I just appreciated Brother Max's message a week

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ago the struggle to find some of these

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things I'm talking about and then once we

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work so hard to obtain it, we have

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a great appreciation for it.

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Okay, verse 35.

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The following day John was again standing with

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two of his disciples.

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As Jesus walked by, John looked at him

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and declared, Look, this is the Lamb of

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God.

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When John's two disciples heard this, they followed

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Jesus.

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Okay, so this was two of John's disciples

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baptized by John.

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They had walked with John for a while

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and now here, John encourages them to follow

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Jesus.

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He says, Look, there is the Lamb of

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And the disciples were easy to acknowledge that.

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They were quick to see that because they

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had started on this right, reasonable, peaceable foundation

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of understanding truth and it just made sense

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to follow Jesus.

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He's the guy.

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Jesus looked around and saw them following.

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What do you want, he asked them.

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They replied, Rabbi, where are you staying?

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Come and see, he said.

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It was about four o'clock in the

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afternoon when they went with him to the

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place where he was staying and they remained

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with him the rest of the day.

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Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of these

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men who heard what John had said and

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then followed Jesus.

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Andrew went to find his brother Simon and

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told him, We found the Messiah, which means

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Christ.

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Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus.

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Looking intently at Simon, Jesus said, Your name

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is Simon, son of John, but you will

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be called Cephas, which means Peter or Rock.

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The next day Jesus decided to go to

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Galilee.

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He found Philip and said to him, Come,

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follow me.

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Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter's hometown.

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Philip went to look for Nathanael and told

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him, We have found the very person Moses

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and the prophets wrote about.

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His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph

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from Nazareth.

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Nazareth, explained Nathanael.

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Can anything good come from Nazareth?

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It's like he was on the balance of

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asking, Is that really the way it is?

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And then Philip did this thing, what Jesus

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did, when he was asked a question, he

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just said, Come and see, figure it out

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for yourself.

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Come and see and I don't have to

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persuade you.

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Just come and see.

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Philip replied.

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As they approached, Jesus said, Now here is

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a genuine son of Israel, a man of

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complete integrity.

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How did you know about me, Nathanael asked.

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Jesus replied, I could see you under the

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fig tree before Philip found you.

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Then Nathanael explained, Rabbi, you are the son

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of God, the king of Israel.

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Jesus asked him, Do you believe this because

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I told you?

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I have seen you under the fig tree.

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You will see greater things than this.

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Then he said, I tell you the truth.

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You will see all heaven open and the

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angels of God going up and down on

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the son of man, the one who is

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the stairway between heaven and earth.

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So just here, when he acknowledges him as

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being a genuine son of Israel, other versions

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would say, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom

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is no guile.

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It's like saying, behold a true Israelite.

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I can't discern for sure whether he's saying

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Israel in the flesh or Israel in the

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spirit, but maybe even at that time it

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was both.

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But definitely Nathanael was an Israelite in the

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spirit, a true son of Abraham, one that

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upon being approached, he easily understood.

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He easily was able to be a disciple

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and go after Jesus.

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I think it was because he was genuine,

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because he had this thing about himself that

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was not defiled.

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I think that's such an important thing.

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If people don't have to grow up and

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get into the slums of being defiled and

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being all out wicked and having to unravel

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all that, put it to the side.

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It's a blessing.

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It sure is a very powerful testimony if

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someone does that.

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That's a great thing.

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Or someone that's in a religious system and

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they get caught up in it so far

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that it's hard work to get out.

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Jesus couldn't hardly say that about them where

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they're without guile.

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But it's just a blessing when you can

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come to a young man and find him

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like that and be named a true Israelite,

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a true spiritual Israelite with complete integrity.

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I think Nathaniel had an understanding.

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He either had an understanding or quickly got

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an understanding that there's going to be...

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Where is that passage?

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Oh, what Philip told him.

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Philip told him, We have found the very

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person Moses and the prophets wrote about.

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His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph

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from Nazareth.

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And Nathaniel didn't...

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It's just beautiful how he didn't have all

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kinds of questions and reasons why this couldn't

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be.

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He had one question about it, but he

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was quick to overcome that and acknowledge him

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as being the true one that was being

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spoken of by the prophets and by Moses.

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And I think that's good too if we

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can remember and if we find a man

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like that that can overcome...

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So often we find men that are just

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so interested in somehow explaining how the law

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of Moses still needs to be practiced.

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We need to occupy a lot of time

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and effort towards these outward worship and rituals

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and really kind of idolize the law of

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Moses in practice.

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But it seemed like Nathaniel understood that there's

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a time coming.

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And we need to be watching for this

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time coming when there's going to be one...

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the one that is really talking about is

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going to come and then we're going to

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believe in him.

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Just one of those things that if we

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can find a man like that, it's worth

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spending a lot of time with him.

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We look not for a man that wants

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to idolize the law of Moses in practice,

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but a man who talks about what the

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law of Moses brought and how it was

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fulfilled in the man Jesus.

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Go ahead.

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Well, I was thinking of that same thing

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you had just been talking about, like what

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made him an Israelite without deceit.

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He kind of hid it.

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So he was an Israelite, so he was

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waiting on this time when this Jesus of

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Nazareth would come, right?

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So when someone said to him, we have

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found this man, I don't know if he

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just believed right away, but he was waiting

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on that time, obviously, because he was going

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to go check it out at least.

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So before he even starts talking to the

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man, the man is like, oh, there comes

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Nathaniel.

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And a true Israelite doesn't have this, you

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know, he's waiting on the Messiah, someone told

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him about him, and here he comes checking

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me out.

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And Nathaniel, in a way, is like, okay,

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this must be the man now.

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Yeah, that's good.

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Yeah, I like that.

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Come and see for yourself, is what Philip

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said after Nathaniel questioned him just a little

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bit.

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It's like, come and see for yourself.

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And he was very ready to do that,

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very quick to acknowledge that he was the

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Rabbi, the Son of God, King of Israel,

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and I'd also be curious whether we can

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discern whether what he's talking about, the spiritual

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Israel, like, oh, I guess, in the epistles

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we can read about spiritual Israel, and then,

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and that's what we're supposed to be, like

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those that are true, true sons of Abraham,

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and true daughters of Sarah, not, you know,

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not in the genealogy flesh, but in that

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they have faith and in that they practice

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what Jesus said.

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Some other accounts, this wouldn't be necessary, Jesus

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coming and finding someone, but when the apostles

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went out and about preaching, I'm very fascinated

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at some of the places they got to

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and they found these people.

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In Acts chapter 16, I'll read a little

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account in how Paul and whoever was traveling

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with him found a lady named Lydia a

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sister, and it, yeah, I'll just read the

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account in Acts chapter 16 verse 11.

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We boarded a boat at Troas and sailed

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straight across to the island of Samothrus and

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the next day we landed at Neapolis.

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From there we reached Philippi, a major city

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of that district of Macedonia in a Roman

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colony and we stayed there several days.

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On the Sabbath we went a little way

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outside the city to a river bank where

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we thought people would be meeting for prayer

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and we sat down to speak with some

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women that gathered there.

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One of them was Lydia from Thyatira, a

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merchant of expensive purple clothes who worshiped God.

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As she listened to us, the Lord opened

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her heart and she accepted what Paul was

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saying.

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She was baptized along with other members of

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her household and she asked us to be

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her guests.

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If you agree that I am a true

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believer in the Lord, she said, come and

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stay at my home and she urged us

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until we agreed.

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What's nice about Scripture sometimes is when you

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see it come together like there's maybe something,

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could seem kind of little, like a verse

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there, look for a sign of peace.

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And then you read through Acts and you

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find some of these things coming together that

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is kind of encouraging.

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It's kind of nice to see the disciples

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being asked to look for a certain thing.

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They were also asked to watch out for

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certain things, watch out for false prophets.

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They were specifically told to not just give

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heed to everything that they hear, but it's

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like when you hear this certain thing, really

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give heed to that.

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And then we read through some of these

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things in Acts and we see some of

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these things coming together.

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Here was a sister.

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She listened to them and the Lord opened

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her heart and she accepted what Paul was

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saying.

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She was baptized and from there she was

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hospitable.

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She offered them a house and I expect

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they ended up fulfilling, not like in a

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prophetic way, but fulfilling what Jesus had told

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the disciples to look for.

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Watch for these kind of people that are

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peaceable and sons of peace.

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And then I had to think of Cornelius.

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I didn't really take time to just really

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look over his account, but he would be

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another account and there's many more accounts of

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people we can probably think of.

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It just came together for them and they

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just quickly understood and there wasn't much doubt

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in Jesus' mind.

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He saw the man and there he was

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and for Paul as well.

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So, I want to now talk about some

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things that hinder some of the things that

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hinder some of that.

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And not just the beginnings of those things,

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but being that most of us are what

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I would say in phase, whatever number you

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want to put on it, phase 2 or

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3, like we have done these things.

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We have heard this message.

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Surely we have been a son of peace

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and we have accepted and tried to understand

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the way of salvation and the message of

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the Lord Jesus.

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And we can look back and we can

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see in our own testimony some of these

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things coming together.

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It's a beautiful testimony when I think back

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on Brother Aaron and Darren getting together.

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You're going out to preach and there he

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was, and pick him up and there he

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is, a man of peace.

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It comes together like that.

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That's a beautiful thing.

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There's different times when the disciples then, like

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they progressed in their life and they walked

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with Jesus for a number of years and

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I think there were some of these bigger

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tests that came along, like these things that

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made them doubt that would come along.

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I don't really see any different in our

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walk today.

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I don't see it any different in my

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walk.

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The temptations don't really get less.

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The walk continues just to be a hard

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walk.

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And surely we've come to a place where

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we've put away these bad things that just

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so easily beset us, like these weights and

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these sins of immorality.

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We've even put away bad habits and we've

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taken great strides in perfecting our walk with

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the Lord as we go day by day.

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It just came to me how it seems

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like our thoughts have attained to a place

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where the old man doesn't rise up as

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much anymore and the immoral sins don't really

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allure you as much anymore.

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There was a time when things really were

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alluring still and they're not as much anymore.

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And I think it comes down to a

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great big thought battle.

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The thought is maybe that last thing that

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Satan has an open door to it.

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He has, because we are man, because we

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are given thoughts to exercise them for good,

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he seems to somehow have an open door

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to those things.

545
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,420
And that could be the final straw to

546
00:28:52,420 --> 00:28:57,740
get someone down, to not continue in that

547
00:28:57,740 --> 00:28:58,080
way.

548
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,540
But it doesn't have to be that way.

549
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,160
We can look to things like this.

550
00:29:08,260 --> 00:29:10,620
We can be encouraged by putting things together

551
00:29:10,620 --> 00:29:12,060
that just make sense.

552
00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:16,740
The disciples starting out with a good foundation

553
00:29:16,740 --> 00:29:21,200
and then by faith they enter into temptations

554
00:29:21,620 --> 00:29:23,020
that they hadn't really known about.

555
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,920
But through faith they make it through and

556
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,220
they become strong men that are able to

557
00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:35,100
carry on the message of the Lord and

558
00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:36,240
a church comes out of that.

559
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,840
That's something to be thankful for.

560
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:44,480
So I want to read now in Matthew

561
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:45,000
6.

562
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:50,680
These would now be some things that if

563
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,000
we are one of those men that have

564
00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,440
walked the walk for years and we have

565
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,340
overcome and won lots of victories, I think

566
00:30:04,340 --> 00:30:06,500
some of these verses would still apply on

567
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:13,860
a daily basis in a daily battle.

568
00:30:14,460 --> 00:30:15,480
Matthew 6.

569
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:18,940
I'll start reading in verse 24.

570
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,060
No one can serve two masters.

571
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,100
You will hate one and love the other.

572
00:30:26,420 --> 00:30:28,100
You will be devoted to one and despise

573
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:28,500
the other.

574
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,360
You cannot serve both God and money.

575
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,920
That is why I tell you not to

576
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,440
worry about everyday life, whether you have enough

577
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,640
food or drink or enough clothes to wear.

578
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,120
Isn't life more than food and your body

579
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:43,820
more than clothing?

580
00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:45,620
Look at the birds.

581
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,800
They don't plant or harvest or store food

582
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,660
in the barns for your heavenly Father feeds

583
00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:51,960
them.

584
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,160
And aren't you of more value to them

585
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,200
than they are?

586
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,160
Can all your worries add a single moment

587
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,900
to your life?

588
00:31:04,540 --> 00:31:06,360
And why worry about your clothes?

589
00:31:06,780 --> 00:31:08,740
Look at the lilies of the field and

590
00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:09,360
how they grow.

591
00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:11,460
They don't work or make their clothing.

592
00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:14,180
Yet Solomon in all his glory is not

593
00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:16,120
dressed as beautifully as they are.

594
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,200
And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers

595
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,020
that are here today and thrown into the

596
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:26,960
fire tomorrow, He will certainly care for you.

597
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,280
Why do you have so little faith?

598
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,680
So don't worry about these things, saying, what

599
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,280
will we eat?

600
00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:34,600
What will we drink?

601
00:31:35,220 --> 00:31:36,060
What will we wear?

602
00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:39,700
These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers.

603
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,680
But your heavenly Father already knows all your

604
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,140
needs.

605
00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:51,040
Seek first the kingdom of God above all

606
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,620
things and live righteously and He will give

607
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:54,900
you everything you need.

608
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,340
So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will

609
00:31:58,340 --> 00:31:59,480
bring its own worries.

610
00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:01,820
Today's trouble is enough for today.

611
00:32:06,020 --> 00:32:09,720
These were words that the apostles or the

612
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,100
disciples there, they had it already early on.

613
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:14,300
They had it with them.

614
00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:15,240
They knew about it.

615
00:32:15,660 --> 00:32:18,660
Actually, Matthew was the one recording this.

616
00:32:21,580 --> 00:32:24,300
And it's these things that carry us through.

617
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:28,480
It's these things that teach us how to

618
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,420
have a good thought structure, how to keep

619
00:32:32,420 --> 00:32:36,780
us being a seeker of peace.

620
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:41,820
When it says a peacemaker, I wonder if

621
00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:45,880
the same thing could be said about a

622
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,280
peacekeeper, that we're supposed to be a peacekeeper

623
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,020
just as well as a peacemaker.

624
00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:55,200
And these things start in our own hearts,

625
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:55,840
I believe.

626
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,120
If we can't have peace in our own

627
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,560
hearts and we're always troubled and thrown around,

628
00:33:03,340 --> 00:33:04,840
I don't know how much we'll have peace

629
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,360
with the people around us.

630
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,160
If we're very critical and quick to be

631
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:21,580
fault-finding and tear others down, it's just

632
00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:25,180
quite obvious that we haven't yet come to

633
00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:31,140
a place where we either maintain this peacemaking

634
00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:34,180
or where we really originally have found it.

635
00:33:34,340 --> 00:33:36,500
Maybe we just haven't really learned that yet.

636
00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:46,720
I don't know.

637
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,180
Maybe it's not this way for everyone or

638
00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:50,100
for you all.

639
00:33:52,860 --> 00:33:58,680
It just comes down to that the walk

640
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:04,720
with the Lord is more coming clear to

641
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,239
me how the blessings really stand out and

642
00:34:07,239 --> 00:34:08,600
then the trials really stand out.

643
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:14,560
And it's just really something how that kind

644
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,280
of carries us on.

645
00:34:20,550 --> 00:34:25,679
Philippians 1, verse 27.

646
00:34:31,389 --> 00:34:34,719
It says, Above all, you must live as

647
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,199
citizens of heaven, conducting yourself in a manner

648
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:42,659
worthy of the good news of Christ.

649
00:34:43,179 --> 00:34:44,900
Then whether I come to see you again

650
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:46,800
or only hear about you, I will know

651
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,139
that you are standing together with one spirit

652
00:34:49,139 --> 00:34:51,460
and one purpose, fighting together for the faith,

653
00:34:52,179 --> 00:34:53,460
which is the good news.

654
00:34:54,139 --> 00:34:56,400
Don't be intimidated in any way by your

655
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,080
enemies.

656
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,960
That's kind of the punchline of this passage,

657
00:35:02,140 --> 00:35:04,460
is don't be intimidated in any way by

658
00:35:04,460 --> 00:35:05,040
your enemies.

659
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,660
It says, In nothing being terrified by your

660
00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:09,360
adversaries.

661
00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:13,660
This will be a sign to them that

662
00:35:13,660 --> 00:35:17,440
they are going to be destroyed, King James

663
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,920
says, which is to them an evident token

664
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,980
of perdition, but that you are going to

665
00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:25,580
be saved.

666
00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:34,720
Okay, so if I understand that right, basically

667
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:36,860
what I want to get to is concerning

668
00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:41,900
the pandemic that's confusing a lot of people.

669
00:35:43,860 --> 00:35:48,940
If the world can see in us somehow

670
00:35:48,940 --> 00:35:50,900
that we have something that they don't have,

671
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:56,060
it's going to be, like if we're not

672
00:35:56,060 --> 00:36:00,040
tossed around and terrified by our adversaries, and

673
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,640
it can be different things, but they could

674
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,040
be bad as well, and they can see

675
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,720
that we're just living day by day, we're

676
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,740
just not taking thought for tomorrow, we're not

677
00:36:10,740 --> 00:36:18,880
involved in all these fights and bickerings about

678
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,220
what's right and what's not.

679
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,220
I would hope that somewhere in the middle

680
00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:29,920
of that, someone would see that we have

681
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,160
something they don't have, and that we can

682
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,800
work together and stand together in ways that

683
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:37,680
they just don't have it.

684
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,080
That they trust in different things, and they

685
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,080
promote different agendas, that we just don't go

686
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,480
by those, we don't trust in that.

687
00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:53,300
And I would just hope that somehow through

688
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:55,980
all that, someone in there would be able

689
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:57,920
to see that the people of God have

690
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:58,760
something different.

691
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,360
They walk by faith.

692
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:08,000
Thank you.

693
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:15,700
Pharaohs chapter 4.

694
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,320
Now I appeal to Iodia and Sanjaya, Sanchi,

695
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,620
please, because you belong to the Lord, settle

696
00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:33,080
your disagreements, and I ask you, my true

697
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,740
partner, to help those two women, for they

698
00:37:35,740 --> 00:37:38,140
worked hard with me in telling others the

699
00:37:38,140 --> 00:37:38,740
good news.

700
00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:42,080
They worked along with Clement and the rest

701
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,400
of my fellow workers, whose names are written

702
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,640
in the Book of Life.

703
00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:49,000
Always be full of the joy of the

704
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:49,280
Lord.

705
00:37:49,460 --> 00:37:50,680
I say it again, rejoice.

706
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,700
Let everyone see that you are considerate in

707
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:56,400
all you do.

708
00:37:57,380 --> 00:37:59,020
Remember, the Lord is coming soon.

709
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,580
Don't worry about anything, instead, pray about everything.

710
00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:06,060
Tell God what you need, and thank Him

711
00:38:06,060 --> 00:38:07,340
for all He has done.

712
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,220
Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds

713
00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:13,820
anything we can understand.

714
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:16,440
His peace will guard your hearts and minds

715
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:17,980
as you live in Christ Jesus.

716
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,900
And now, dear brothers, one final thing.

717
00:38:23,340 --> 00:38:25,520
Fix your thoughts on what is true, and

718
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,800
honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and

719
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,280
admirable.

720
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,320
Think about things that are excellent and worthy

721
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:33,960
of praise.

722
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:40,640
Keep putting into practice all you learned and

723
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,960
received from me, everything you heard from me

724
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:44,740
and saw me doing.

725
00:38:45,140 --> 00:38:47,820
Then the peace of God will be with

726
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:48,080
you.

727
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,740
This is the passage I just made a

728
00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:52,500
little note here.

729
00:38:53,460 --> 00:38:54,480
There is a condition.

730
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:58,060
If we want this peace that will carry

731
00:38:58,060 --> 00:39:00,880
us through these pandemics, that will carry us

732
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,720
through trials of life, the daily grind of

733
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,900
being a Christian, and I'm not saying this,

734
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,080
there are so many blessings that go with

735
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,960
it that we need to count those and

736
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:16,800
we need to see those.

737
00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:20,760
But still, it's these kind of things that

738
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,160
our thoughts need to be fixed on.

739
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,780
The things that are honorable, that are pure,

740
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,400
things that are right, lovely, worthy of praise,

741
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,680
these are all things that if we want

742
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,580
this peace that comes from God, not as

743
00:39:40,580 --> 00:39:42,220
the world gives, but the way God gives,

744
00:39:43,140 --> 00:39:44,880
we need to have our thoughts fixed on

745
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:45,120
that.

746
00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:56,980
And I struggle myself sometimes to know how

747
00:39:56,980 --> 00:40:02,020
much to be involved in news medias and

748
00:40:02,020 --> 00:40:04,500
all the different things that I have easy

749
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:05,320
access to it.

750
00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:08,400
And I know a lot of us here

751
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,000
have easy access to it.

752
00:40:11,780 --> 00:40:15,940
And I think they're not evil to have,

753
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,720
but they can become very evil if they

754
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:26,120
get us to where we think about it

755
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,640
too much and we kind of go along

756
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,220
with certain propagandas that are being pushed or

757
00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:34,620
we kind of have an idea about a

758
00:40:34,620 --> 00:40:36,760
certain thing that the world is pushing.

759
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,400
And we get so worried about it, not

760
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,320
that we might want to go with that

761
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,440
flow, but that we think we have to

762
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:51,500
just think about it so much.

763
00:40:51,860 --> 00:40:53,940
It's something that we can think about and

764
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:55,380
then surely we can lay it to rest

765
00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:59,320
and we can think about the hereafter.

766
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,400
We can think about the preparation for it

767
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:07,240
and be thankful for all the things that

768
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,400
God has done for us.

769
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,120
I was surprised.

770
00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:17,680
I spent about a week not working as

771
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,360
much as usual and I was surprised how

772
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:24,520
much time that I spent just taking care

773
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:25,000
of myself.

774
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,940
I would think, oh, I can surely now

775
00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:29,620
just really settle in here and read a

776
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:31,860
lot and do a lot of meditating.

777
00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:37,260
But it just goes to show how the

778
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:40,520
thing that we see as the most important

779
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,820
is the thing that we're going to give

780
00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:43,140
the most attention to.

781
00:41:43,820 --> 00:41:48,280
And for me it was taking care of

782
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:48,660
myself.

783
00:41:48,780 --> 00:41:52,720
It seemed pretty important, but here surely we

784
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,120
can convert this to seeing how we just

785
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,680
don't know how much time we have here.

786
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,700
We need to understand that the day of

787
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:00,540
the Lord is at hand and it could

788
00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:00,880
come.

789
00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:03,920
It could come today yet and we don't

790
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,820
have much time just to be really involved

791
00:42:06,820 --> 00:42:08,760
just figuring out who's right and who's wrong

792
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:15,040
out there and figuring all those things out.

793
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,620
Those are the thoughts that the Gentiles have,

794
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:19,120
I believe.

795
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,900
They think about those things.

796
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:28,540
They try to hold judgments and another thing

797
00:42:28,540 --> 00:42:29,680
I wanted to talk a little bit about

798
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,900
was how there's a development that comes along

799
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:35,420
with that if that goes too far.

800
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:36,720
I have an example in mind.

801
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,940
I won't mention the people group I'm thinking,

802
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,380
but we know them well, or we don't

803
00:42:41,380 --> 00:42:42,940
know them well, but we know of them.

804
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,140
Somehow they have put a certain sin, it

805
00:42:50,140 --> 00:42:52,320
starts with the letter A, they have put

806
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,320
it up on a pedestal and they're willing

807
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,400
to go speak against it very boldly.

808
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:58,460
I appreciate that.

809
00:42:59,860 --> 00:43:06,500
But in their own midst they have lawsuits,

810
00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:09,040
they have fightings, they have biggerings among themselves.

811
00:43:09,340 --> 00:43:12,760
They take no heat to control their own

812
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,680
selves, you might say.

813
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:16,460
It's just bad.

814
00:43:16,620 --> 00:43:17,480
It's a bad testimony.

815
00:43:18,020 --> 00:43:19,320
I think it's hypocritical.

816
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,920
I'd say that's on the far end of

817
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,900
trying to be out in the world or

818
00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:30,080
trying to figure out what all is going

819
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,760
on in the world, who's right, who's wrong.

820
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,260
I'd say they'd be an extreme case of

821
00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:38,000
how far things can go if we go

822
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,720
too far that way.

823
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:43,720
Okay.

824
00:43:44,620 --> 00:43:46,840
A man of peace will be quick to

825
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,020
listen, slow to speak, slow to get angry.

826
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:51,440
It's like James said.

827
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,180
A man of peace will be slow to

828
00:43:56,180 --> 00:43:57,200
spread propaganda.

829
00:43:57,940 --> 00:44:00,740
Like he will hear something, he'll be slow

830
00:44:00,740 --> 00:44:01,700
to speak about it.

831
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,340
He'll weigh it out, see what really is

832
00:44:06,340 --> 00:44:06,720
the matter.

833
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,340
Is it really something that's important enough for

834
00:44:10,340 --> 00:44:13,900
me to really show it around, really say,

835
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,260
yeah, I found this, this is what the

836
00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:17,160
bad guys are doing, and we all need

837
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:17,840
to know about it.

838
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,160
Is it really that important to do that?

839
00:44:22,380 --> 00:44:23,920
And then the other thing is, well, what

840
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,920
if what is said about what they're doing

841
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,980
isn't even quite accurate, and we're spreading it,

842
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,400
what does that make us?

843
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,540
No, I think a man of peace would

844
00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:35,660
be, he'd be slow to do those things.

845
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,220
He'd be slow to speak, and of course,

846
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,000
slow to get angry, and quick to listen

847
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,740
things out, quick to get a full understanding,

848
00:44:44,740 --> 00:44:48,720
a full scope of what the important things

849
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:49,240
are.

850
00:44:54,420 --> 00:44:56,460
I think in a pandemic like this that

851
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:58,920
we're in, I think what should separate us

852
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,500
from the people of God is that we

853
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:04,580
show that we do not trust in what

854
00:45:04,580 --> 00:45:05,320
they trust in.

855
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:06,760
We do not trust in vaccines.

856
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:12,440
We do not trust in, we don't trust

857
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,960
in these things that they put out.

858
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,780
I'm not saying that there's not some good

859
00:45:15,780 --> 00:45:18,160
in vaccines, and there's not some good in

860
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,540
wearing a, whatever, wearing a mask or, I'm

861
00:45:20,540 --> 00:45:21,200
not saying those things.

862
00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:23,940
I'm just saying that our ultimate trust has

863
00:45:23,940 --> 00:45:26,340
to come from God, has to be in

864
00:45:26,340 --> 00:45:29,980
God, and our faith has to be in

865
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:33,860
God, or we'll come to one of these

866
00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:36,220
extreme, you know, extreme places.

867
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:42,620
And neither is it our duty to be

868
00:45:42,620 --> 00:45:47,840
overly focused and revealing all the different, you

869
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,520
know, reports that are out, or all the

870
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,580
different things that are out and about that

871
00:45:51,580 --> 00:45:54,440
we think are bad.

872
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,220
But we first need to make judgments within

873
00:45:59,220 --> 00:46:06,500
ourselves and be sure, and, you know, we

874
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,040
try to get the beam out of someone

875
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,680
else's eye, and we have a big log

876
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:11,840
in our own eye, it won't go too

877
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:12,080
well.

878
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,400
Jesus told us that, and so it's just

879
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,120
important.

880
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,420
I wanted to boil, kind of boil it

881
00:46:24,420 --> 00:46:27,280
down to a, as I try to make

882
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,780
my points of what a man of peace

883
00:46:28,780 --> 00:46:34,520
would look like and what I believe this

884
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:39,700
entails if we would be able to do

885
00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:42,800
a little science lesson to explain this a

886
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,240
little better, because I think it's, what I'm

887
00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:46,500
trying to say is a little hard to

888
00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:48,380
really just see all that well sometimes.

889
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:57,140
But if we would think of the fruit

890
00:46:57,140 --> 00:47:01,060
of the Spirit as all being a content

891
00:47:01,060 --> 00:47:03,380
or a matter that we could take and

892
00:47:03,380 --> 00:47:06,560
we could mix it up into a pot,

893
00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:11,120
we could have a good science lesson that

894
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,380
would have some very spiritual value to it.

895
00:47:16,220 --> 00:47:17,560
And I wanted to leave it at that,

896
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,620
with that in mind, that I think that

897
00:47:20,620 --> 00:47:25,420
would be a good way to describe a

898
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:26,880
man of peace, that would be full of

899
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:35,500
love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, long-suffering,

900
00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:36,100
meekness.

901
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,000
Maybe I'm missing one, but like take nine

902
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,140
pieces of good stuff, mix it together, and

903
00:47:42,140 --> 00:47:43,880
it's going to prosper.

904
00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:46,600
That's the encouraging part.

905
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,360
That's the thing that I want to leave

906
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,720
you all with, is that that's what we

907
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:56,260
need to be doing, is find the virtues

908
00:47:56,260 --> 00:47:59,020
of God and bring them into one pot

909
00:47:59,020 --> 00:48:00,940
and make a good thing out of it.

910
00:48:01,060 --> 00:48:02,280
It's what the Lord wants to do with

911
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:02,500
us.

912
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:08,800
And I just wanted to say that, and

913
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,100
hopefully that's an encouragement.

914
00:48:12,620 --> 00:48:16,220
There's some passages in John that relate to

915
00:48:16,220 --> 00:48:16,740
it as well.

916
00:48:18,060 --> 00:48:20,520
I remember now that I missed them, I

917
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:26,300
skipped them, but they're encouraging too.

918
00:48:26,580 --> 00:48:31,180
It's these same disciples that I expect Nathaniel

919
00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:34,840
was maybe with them that were full of

920
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:39,520
virtue and a true Israelite were now behind

921
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:40,200
locked doors.

922
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:46,260
Ironically, after some time and stuff, after Jesus

923
00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:49,920
was caught and crucified and put in the

924
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,140
grave, they were behind locked doors and Jesus

925
00:48:53,140 --> 00:48:54,840
came in their midst and said, Let peace

926
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,640
be unto you.

927
00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:02,000
I think that was pretty encouraging for them.

928
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,320
From there it seemed like it went better.

929
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,920
It seemed like they really just got out

930
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,260
of that and were bold.

931
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:09,540
That's for us today.

932
00:49:11,420 --> 00:49:15,520
So I'm going to close this with a

933
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,440
prayer and then you can make your comments.

934
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:20,460
Maybe we can all stand.

935
00:49:21,020 --> 00:49:22,060
Refresh a little bit.

936
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:24,680
Stand for prayer.

937
00:49:30,260 --> 00:49:32,460
Oh God in heaven, we pray to you

938
00:49:32,460 --> 00:49:35,200
and just want to commit our life and

939
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:36,360
everything into your care.

940
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:39,480
I just want to commit these things that

941
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:45,160
I spoke about and just pray that they

942
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,920
can be increased and that something was said

943
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,720
that was hindering of your ways that it

944
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:53,560
would be pointed out.

945
00:49:54,260 --> 00:49:56,000
I want your Spirit to reign in our

946
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,980
lives and be thankful in all things.

947
00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:02,220
Just help us to be stretched and to

948
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:05,140
be moved in ways that we haven't before.

949
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,880
And just thank you so much for being

950
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,520
a heavenly Father and sending your Son for

951
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:12,980
salvation.

952
00:50:14,540 --> 00:50:21,160
I just want to acknowledge how worthy you

953
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:26,140
are of our praise and worship and just

954
00:50:26,140 --> 00:50:27,940
help us through life, give us to victory.

955
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,460
I pray in Jesus' name, Amen.

956
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,200
Thank you, Brother Adly.

957
00:50:34,260 --> 00:50:35,140
That was very edifying.

958
00:50:35,580 --> 00:50:36,480
I appreciated it.

959
00:50:37,260 --> 00:50:40,220
I just had a couple of thoughts.

960
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,560
One was I just wanted to express appreciation

961
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,120
for how you brought out a healthy kind

962
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,600
of peace, peace that is hospitable, peace that

963
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:55,460
is open to receiving truth, and then an

964
00:50:55,460 --> 00:51:00,300
unhealthy kind of peace that is being at

965
00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:04,120
peace with the way things are and being

966
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:10,380
okay with the pleasures that the world has

967
00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:13,120
to offer, I suppose, if I caught your

968
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:13,680
drift right.

969
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:18,480
And then...

970
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:25,360
I had another thought and it escaped me.

971
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,300
If it comes back to me, maybe I'll

972
00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:28,360
share it again.

973
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:29,120
Anyway, thank you.

974
00:51:29,180 --> 00:51:29,660
God bless you.

975
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,540
Yeah, I too appreciated it, what you brought

976
00:51:33,540 --> 00:51:39,380
out, Adly, and also the scripture that was

977
00:51:39,380 --> 00:51:40,200
read earlier.

978
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:41,580
I appreciated that as well.

979
00:51:42,340 --> 00:51:42,780
It helped me.

980
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,740
I guess what struck me the most maybe

981
00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:54,040
is something that I think is very important

982
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:54,720
is our thoughts.

983
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,460
At least it seemed that way in my

984
00:51:58,460 --> 00:51:58,880
life.

985
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:03,000
If we allow our thought life to go

986
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:08,140
too rampant or get out of control, then

987
00:52:08,140 --> 00:52:13,060
Satan can stumble us in the natural, if

988
00:52:13,060 --> 00:52:16,000
that makes any sense, in our flesh, I

989
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:16,280
guess.

990
00:52:18,420 --> 00:52:20,360
I guess I'm seeing it more and more

991
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,480
like our minds, our thoughts, our spiritual, and

992
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:27,260
they do control our flesh.

993
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,040
They're obedient.

994
00:52:30,580 --> 00:52:33,600
The rest of the body is obedient to

995
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:34,540
the mind.

996
00:52:36,540 --> 00:52:40,260
What comes out of us is coming out

997
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:43,520
of the depths of our hearts or mind,

998
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,520
as I would put it.

999
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,080
And so it's very important to...

1000
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,460
I think Adly said something like...

1001
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,540
something like warfare in the mind.

1002
00:52:59,620 --> 00:53:00,600
I forget how he said it now.

1003
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:06,020
The battle is in the heart of our...

1004
00:53:06,020 --> 00:53:07,820
in the center of our souls.

1005
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:11,360
And...

1006
00:53:14,340 --> 00:53:15,460
also really...

1007
00:53:16,780 --> 00:53:21,220
when we come across that...

1008
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:25,080
I forget where it was at, but this

1009
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:26,160
is what I read this morning.

1010
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,520
Now, who will harm you if you're eager

1011
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:31,640
to do what is good?

1012
00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:34,900
But even if you do suffer for doing

1013
00:53:34,900 --> 00:53:36,320
what is right, you're blessed.

1014
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:42,400
Do not fear what they fear, but in

1015
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:43,560
your hearts...

1016
00:53:44,190 --> 00:53:44,920
I'm missing...

1017
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,660
Do not fear what they fear, and do

1018
00:53:46,660 --> 00:53:53,880
not be intimidated, but in your hearts, sanctify

1019
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:54,760
Christ as Lord.

1020
00:53:56,020 --> 00:53:58,040
The world is in fear with this pandemic,

1021
00:53:58,340 --> 00:53:59,640
and I disagree with Adly.

1022
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:00,860
She shared on that as well.

1023
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,680
There's just this fear thing going around, and...

1024
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:08,120
it's like...

1025
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,560
when it first came out, somebody had a

1026
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,040
little cough, oh, this might be COVID, and

1027
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,560
now we're in for it, and maybe we'll

1028
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,000
be in for it, I don't know, but...

1029
00:54:18,940 --> 00:54:21,540
I had to catch myself not to be

1030
00:54:21,540 --> 00:54:22,420
fearing that thing.

1031
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:26,960
It is of no value.

1032
00:54:27,380 --> 00:54:32,220
Fear not what they fear, and do not

1033
00:54:32,220 --> 00:54:32,900
be intimidated.

1034
00:54:33,540 --> 00:54:36,860
I just think that this personal peace is

1035
00:54:36,860 --> 00:54:38,120
a man...

1036
00:54:39,620 --> 00:54:42,760
is this person that Adly described, this man

1037
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:46,880
that has peace, he's not run by clothing

1038
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,280
and food and pandemics in the world and

1039
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:51,900
politics and...

1040
00:54:53,940 --> 00:54:54,960
there's a different...

1041
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:56,900
there's just a different...

1042
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,500
completely different person as a Christian.

1043
00:55:02,900 --> 00:55:03,420
Completely...

1044
00:55:03,420 --> 00:55:06,200
completely different understanding of things.

1045
00:55:07,820 --> 00:55:08,180
And...

1046
00:55:09,420 --> 00:55:11,860
God wants us to fear Him and not

1047
00:55:11,860 --> 00:55:13,440
have fear of these things around us.

1048
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:15,960
Anyways, I've been blessed.

1049
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:17,640
God be with us.

1050
00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:19,620
Okay, my thoughts came back to me.

1051
00:55:20,580 --> 00:55:22,980
One thing that I was thinking about, and

1052
00:55:22,980 --> 00:55:24,500
I kind of wrestle with this a little

1053
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:28,340
bit, in that account of the 70, and

1054
00:55:28,340 --> 00:55:30,660
Jesus has those instructions for them to seek

1055
00:55:30,660 --> 00:55:32,680
out a son of peace, and if there

1056
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:33,780
is one there, to...

1057
00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:34,840
to abide.

1058
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,220
And then there's another phrase in there that

1059
00:55:36,220 --> 00:55:38,420
talks about if you can't find one such

1060
00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:41,100
person when you visit a city, to shake

1061
00:55:41,100 --> 00:55:43,340
off the dust of your sandals and continue

1062
00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:43,740
on.

1063
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:45,900
And it seems like...

1064
00:55:45,900 --> 00:55:47,040
and I don't think that it's wrong.

1065
00:55:47,140 --> 00:55:49,400
I've heard before people apply that in saying

1066
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,940
that we ought not to enter into disputings

1067
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,660
and big arguments with people if somebody shuts

1068
00:55:55,660 --> 00:55:57,020
us down and doesn't want to receive it,

1069
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:57,620
or if they're...

1070
00:55:57,620 --> 00:56:00,040
if they're asking questions really only to the

1071
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,280
purpose of picking a fight, if we're evangelizing,

1072
00:56:03,020 --> 00:56:03,320
then that's...

1073
00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,720
maybe not profitable to stay engaged in that

1074
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:09,360
conversation.

1075
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,040
So a reason not to try to force...

1076
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:13,960
force the gospel on people who are unwilling

1077
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:14,520
to hear.

1078
00:56:15,140 --> 00:56:17,440
And then, on the other hand, throughout the

1079
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,060
book of Acts and other places, you have

1080
00:56:19,060 --> 00:56:22,060
people, Paul, for one, and Stephen, the first

1081
00:56:22,060 --> 00:56:24,260
martyr, who delivered a real hard message to

1082
00:56:24,260 --> 00:56:26,100
people who largely didn't want to hear it.

1083
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:27,400
And I...

1084
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,560
I struggle sometimes to...

1085
00:56:31,620 --> 00:56:32,080
to...

1086
00:56:33,100 --> 00:56:35,120
to know how to discern that properly.

1087
00:56:35,420 --> 00:56:37,240
When is the right time to...

1088
00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:38,520
to share something?

1089
00:56:38,620 --> 00:56:40,200
And when is the time to...

1090
00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:41,900
to move on?

1091
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,600
Also, I guess, just a...

1092
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:47,720
a thought on that...

1093
00:56:47,720 --> 00:56:51,420
like, kind of that last frontier foothold of...

1094
00:56:51,420 --> 00:56:54,400
of the devil, the enemy of thoughts.

1095
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,860
That being kind of the last foothold of

1096
00:56:58,860 --> 00:56:59,080
him.

1097
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:02,940
A pretty long time ago, somebody told my

1098
00:57:02,940 --> 00:57:04,920
wife that...

1099
00:57:07,100 --> 00:57:07,980
Satan can't...

1100
00:57:07,980 --> 00:57:10,580
can't see our thoughts or can't...

1101
00:57:10,580 --> 00:57:12,280
somehow can't influence them.

1102
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:13,720
And I...

1103
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:15,180
It sounded good.

1104
00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:16,300
It sounded kind of spiritual.

1105
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:17,660
It sounded like a right thing.

1106
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:18,840
And I...

1107
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:20,380
I mean, I don't think he has access

1108
00:57:20,380 --> 00:57:22,440
into our minds, but, boy, he sure can

1109
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,160
plant seeds.

1110
00:57:23,380 --> 00:57:25,860
Like, if we talk about when we're out

1111
00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:28,180
evangelizing, planting a seed, you know, well, it

1112
00:57:28,180 --> 00:57:30,040
wasn't the best conversation, but maybe a seed

1113
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,020
was planted or didn't seem like they were

1114
00:57:32,020 --> 00:57:33,580
that interested, but maybe a seed was planted.

1115
00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:35,200
I don't know why the enemy can't work

1116
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:36,360
with the same principle.

1117
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:37,740
He sure knows how to...

1118
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,740
He sure knows how to try to trip

1119
00:57:40,740 --> 00:57:43,320
us up by planting the seed of a

1120
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,900
thought just from maybe something we experience on

1121
00:57:46,900 --> 00:57:47,400
the external.

1122
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:49,640
Anyway, I...

1123
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,580
I identified with what you were sharing about

1124
00:57:51,580 --> 00:57:51,900
the...

1125
00:57:51,900 --> 00:57:52,940
about the thoughts.

1126
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:53,840
Thank you.

1127
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,980
That kind of makes me think of the...

1128
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,960
Is it a parable that talks about the

1129
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:01,880
man's house that was swept clean?

1130
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,740
You know, the house is swept clean, and

1131
00:58:04,740 --> 00:58:05,840
then the...

1132
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,900
the wandering spirit comes back to that house

1133
00:58:09,900 --> 00:58:12,500
and brings six or seven worse.

1134
00:58:12,660 --> 00:58:14,100
Well, I don't know why that seed couldn't

1135
00:58:14,100 --> 00:58:18,260
be planted, and then internally everything gets destroyed.

1136
00:58:19,140 --> 00:58:21,420
Thank you, Brother Apley, and the thought life,

1137
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,760
I guess, until our last breath, our last

1138
00:58:26,180 --> 00:58:28,060
hour, will always be...

1139
00:58:28,060 --> 00:58:29,560
No one's exempt from temptation.

1140
00:58:29,900 --> 00:58:32,420
I mean, that's our last breath, I know

1141
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,340
Brother Walter was talking about that upstairs earlier,

1142
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:43,080
but let's remember we're in a fight, a

1143
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,080
war, and we put on the armor of

1144
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:49,500
God, and one of the weapons is prayer,

1145
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,280
and like someone said years ago, we don't

1146
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,580
take time from God, I'm sorry, we don't

1147
00:58:55,580 --> 00:58:58,840
take time from God, we make time for

1148
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,960
God, so what's the first thing we think

1149
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,100
about when we wake up in the morning?

1150
00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:04,140
It should be prayer, or at least get

1151
00:59:04,140 --> 00:59:08,000
our minds, get our minds geared, prayer, Bible

1152
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,780
study, someone said just seven minutes a day

1153
00:59:11,180 --> 00:59:12,720
for those who go to work, and some

1154
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:13,860
of the brothers you get up at five

1155
00:59:13,860 --> 00:59:15,620
thirty or early to go to work, just

1156
00:59:15,620 --> 00:59:18,000
seven minutes a day of reading a couple

1157
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,720
of Psalms, a chapter from the New Testament,

1158
00:59:20,980 --> 00:59:23,680
in prayer, we'll have, we have an advantage

1159
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,240
in how we're going to start out our

1160
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,480
day, but if we, if we neglect that,

1161
00:59:27,980 --> 00:59:30,620
sometimes the whole day we're trying to catch

1162
00:59:30,620 --> 00:59:31,940
up, what am I thinking this?

1163
00:59:32,340 --> 00:59:32,940
What is this?

1164
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,520
And if we, if we don't, at least

1165
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,780
for me, in my life, if I don't

1166
00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:39,000
have that quiet time with God before I

1167
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,220
go to work or something, the whole day

1168
00:59:41,220 --> 00:59:43,080
could be, catch up, and it's like a

1169
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,940
downhill thing, and so I think our thought

1170
00:59:46,940 --> 00:59:48,480
life is so important, and prayer life is

1171
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,120
one of the main things.

1172
00:59:50,820 --> 00:59:52,260
First, what is the first thing we think

1173
00:59:52,260 --> 00:59:53,220
about when we go to bed, and what

1174
00:59:53,220 --> 00:59:54,460
should be the last thing we think about

1175
00:59:54,460 --> 00:59:55,160
when we go to bed?

1176
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,700
And pray unceasingly for you brothers, and I

1177
00:59:58,700 --> 01:00:00,060
count my blessings for all your brothers.

1178
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:00,900
The Lord be magnified.

1179
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,260
I just wanted to share two verses in

1180
01:00:03,260 --> 01:00:07,060
relation to Satan, and our hearts.

1181
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:09,720
I think he can influence our heart.

1182
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,640
I think he can get in there and

1183
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:13,860
not just take away the seed.

1184
01:00:15,740 --> 01:00:17,280
I think it's one of his tactics.

1185
01:00:17,620 --> 01:00:19,660
We're not supposed to be ignorant of his

1186
01:00:19,660 --> 01:00:20,900
tactics or his devices.

1187
01:00:22,460 --> 01:00:24,960
The first scripture is John 13, 2.

1188
01:00:25,340 --> 01:00:29,740
It says, and supper being ended, the devil

1189
01:00:29,740 --> 01:00:32,360
having now put into the heart of Judas

1190
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,920
Iscariot Simon's son to betray him.

1191
01:00:36,420 --> 01:00:38,480
And the second verse is Acts 5, 3.

1192
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:39,460
And there's more too.

1193
01:00:39,620 --> 01:00:41,620
These are just two that I found fast.

1194
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:43,340
Acts 5, 3.

1195
01:00:44,500 --> 01:00:48,440
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled

1196
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,340
thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost

1197
01:00:50,340 --> 01:00:52,440
and to keep back part of the price

1198
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:53,220
of the land?

1199
01:00:55,260 --> 01:00:58,040
So Satan is constantly trying to influence our

1200
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,580
thoughts and our heart and we have to

1201
01:01:00,580 --> 01:01:02,360
be vigilant and resist the devil.

1202
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,140
We have to cast down anything that exalted

1203
01:01:07,140 --> 01:01:10,720
itself against the knowledge of God immediately or

1204
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:11,860
it can get in there and it can

1205
01:01:11,860 --> 01:01:13,780
grow and do a lot of damage.

1206
01:01:17,500 --> 01:01:19,160
But I appreciated what you shared.

1207
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:20,840
It brought out a lot of good things.

1208
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:25,180
It actually kind of reminded me of something

1209
01:01:25,180 --> 01:01:25,980
I read this morning.

1210
01:01:26,180 --> 01:01:26,920
It's not a scripture.

1211
01:01:27,580 --> 01:01:32,240
It's just like a quote in relation to

1212
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,520
some of the things that you shared about

1213
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,880
the fear and the pandemic and all the

1214
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,480
information that's being passed around.

1215
01:01:38,500 --> 01:01:40,960
One thing that's that I've noticed is that

1216
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,040
people just can't really talk about it.

1217
01:01:43,140 --> 01:01:44,980
They can't sit down and just have a

1218
01:01:44,980 --> 01:01:46,180
civil conversation about it.

1219
01:01:46,260 --> 01:01:47,720
It gets so heated and I think that

1220
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,060
that really should concern us as Christians.

1221
01:01:50,060 --> 01:01:51,860
We should be able to talk about things

1222
01:01:51,860 --> 01:01:54,440
and reason with one another in a peaceful

1223
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:54,880
manner.

1224
01:01:58,860 --> 01:02:02,300
The quote is, Truth does not mind being

1225
01:02:02,300 --> 01:02:02,880
questioned.

1226
01:02:03,540 --> 01:02:05,900
A lie does not like being challenged.

1227
01:02:07,660 --> 01:02:08,740
I think one of the things I really

1228
01:02:08,740 --> 01:02:11,480
appreciate about here is at the end of

1229
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,980
the service or the sermon we have that

1230
01:02:14,980 --> 01:02:20,820
opportunity to just say call something out or

1231
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:23,380
question something or agree with something.

1232
01:02:23,540 --> 01:02:25,840
It's just really important for truth.

1233
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:30,320
It's just really important for anything that you

1234
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,620
can converse about it and talk about it

1235
01:02:33,620 --> 01:02:35,860
in a peaceful manner and come to conclusions

1236
01:02:35,860 --> 01:02:39,120
and reason with one another and in the

1237
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:40,640
multitude of counselors there's safety.

1238
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:42,380
It's just really good to be able to

1239
01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:44,180
have that opportunity.

1240
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,280
When that opportunity ceases to exist that's when

1241
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,660
there's a real danger because if a lie

1242
01:02:52,660 --> 01:02:54,700
or something that's not true never can be

1243
01:02:54,700 --> 01:02:59,340
challenged then it just will proceed and it

1244
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:01,640
will just be what everybody goes along with.

1245
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,760
We shouldn't be afraid to challenge things or

1246
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:06,720
to talk about things.

1247
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:08,260
We should be afraid not to.

1248
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:09,940
Thank you.

1249
01:03:10,300 --> 01:03:12,540
Maybe just to add to that we shouldn't

1250
01:03:12,540 --> 01:03:13,980
be afraid to talk about things in a

1251
01:03:13,980 --> 01:03:17,800
loving charitable way not just it has to

1252
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,580
be done in the right spirit and it

1253
01:03:20,580 --> 01:03:23,640
has to be edifying and profitable.

1254
01:03:25,940 --> 01:03:29,840
We shouldn't be afraid to talk about things

1255
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,160
even though they're controversial if we're in the

1256
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:35,920
right spirit I think we could really help

1257
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,520
each other to stay on track.

1258
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:57,280
We're the loved ones now and in the

1259
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:05,360
scenes of divine what a joy it will

1260
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:16,360
be to know her out there grateful

1261
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:26,060
and true in the hope I am there

1262
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:36,580
when when the ransom get all what a

1263
01:04:36,580 --> 01:04:41,220
joy it will be what a joy it

1264
01:04:41,220 --> 01:04:48,180
will be to be gathered together again in

1265
01:04:48,180 --> 01:04:52,900
the hope Let us say you're with me

1266
01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:05,140
When the parties are gone And we never

1267
01:05:05,140 --> 01:05:14,720
more roam In the beautiful land In

1268
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:19,840
the beautiful land When the red sun will

1269
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:27,420
get low And the red sun shall

1270
01:05:27,420 --> 01:05:38,840
rise To the glorious place On

1271
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:47,140
the land far away There where I turn

1272
01:05:47,140 --> 01:05:55,400
and live What a shout he will sound

1273
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:04,980
Through heavens and earth Through heavens and earth

1274
01:06:04,980 --> 01:06:26,940
On the beautiful shore What

1275
01:06:26,940 --> 01:06:35,260
joy it will be To be a part

1276
01:06:35,260 --> 01:06:44,080
of that Let us say you're with me

1277
01:06:46,930 --> 01:06:55,480
When the parties are gone And we never

1278
01:06:55,480 --> 01:07:04,420
more roam In the beautiful land

1279
01:07:04,420 --> 01:07:10,470
When the red sun get

1280
01:07:10,470 --> 01:07:18,230
low When the red sun cross

1281
01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:29,550
over To that bright golden place What

1282
01:07:29,550 --> 01:07:38,750
a beautiful song What a glorious dream

1283
01:07:41,410 --> 01:07:50,330
We'll be walking away Mid the dawns of

1284
01:07:50,330 --> 01:07:58,850
the sky When the red sun get high

1285
01:08:00,750 --> 01:08:09,970
In the sweet morning light When the red

1286
01:08:09,970 --> 01:08:14,590
sun get high When the red sun get

1287
01:08:14,590 --> 01:08:23,069
high What a joy it will be To

1288
01:08:23,069 --> 01:08:30,550
be a part of that Let us say

1289
01:08:30,550 --> 01:08:39,090
you're with me When the parties are

1290
01:08:39,090 --> 01:08:46,149
gone And we never more

1291
01:08:46,149 --> 01:08:57,750
roam In the beautiful land When

1292
01:08:57,750 --> 01:09:02,529
the red sun get low When the red

1293
01:09:02,529 --> 01:09:10,229
sun get low I will sing of my

1294
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:19,770
reaper And his wondrous surgery On the

1295
01:09:19,770 --> 01:09:28,229
brutal cross he suffered From the curse to

1296
01:09:28,229 --> 01:09:36,189
set me free Sing, oh sing of my

1297
01:09:36,189 --> 01:09:45,109
reaper With his lovely prayers he'll

1298
01:09:45,109 --> 01:09:54,170
hear On the cross he's healed my heart

1299
01:09:54,890 --> 01:10:04,790
He'll make my day every day I

1300
01:10:04,790 --> 01:10:14,030
will tell a wondrous story How my lost

1301
01:10:14,030 --> 01:10:22,050
estate is saved In his boundless love and

1302
01:10:22,050 --> 01:10:31,710
mercy He the ransom freely gave Sing, oh

1303
01:10:31,710 --> 01:10:40,150
sing of my reaper With his

1304
01:10:40,150 --> 01:10:48,270
lovely prayers he'll hear On the

1305
01:10:48,270 --> 01:10:56,510
cross he's healed my heart He'll make my

1306
01:10:56,510 --> 01:11:06,230
day every day I will praise

1307
01:11:06,230 --> 01:11:15,430
my dear reaper His triumphant power I'll

1308
01:11:15,430 --> 01:11:24,630
tell I'll know the victory given Over

1309
01:11:24,630 --> 01:11:32,290
sin and hell Sing, oh sing

1310
01:11:32,290 --> 01:11:39,910
of my reaper With his

1311
01:11:39,910 --> 01:11:48,130
lovely prayers he'll hear On the

1312
01:11:48,130 --> 01:11:56,450
cross he's healed my heart He'll make my

1313
01:11:56,450 --> 01:12:05,300
day every day I will sing

1314
01:12:05,300 --> 01:12:14,800
of my reaper And his heavenly love to

1315
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:21,760
me He from death to life has brought

1316
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:29,180
me Sons of God in heaven to thee

1317
01:12:29,180 --> 01:12:39,180
Sing, oh sing of my reaper With his

1318
01:12:39,180 --> 01:12:49,120
lovely prayers he'll hear On the cross

1319
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:57,940
he's healed my heart He'll make my day

1320
01:12:57,940 --> 01:13:00,740
every day