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Things that you'll see in your study and

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some things you see up here.

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He's ready to depart on the morrow.

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That's a good word for preachers.

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You don't have to take off on Sunday.

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You go tomorrow.

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That's what it says.

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And continued his speech until midnight and there

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were many lights in the upper chamber where

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they were gathered together.

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And there sat in the window a certain

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young man named Eutychus being fallen into a

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deep sleep.

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And as Paul was long preaching he sunk

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down with sleep and fell down from the

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third loft and was taken up dead.

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And Paul went down and fell on him

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and bracing him said, trouble not yourselves for

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his life is in him.

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When he therefore was come up again and

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had broken bread and eaten and talked a

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long while even till a break of day

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so he departed.

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They brought the young man alive and were

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not a little comforted.

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Taken up and fell down from the third

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loft.

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This is one of the thirds that the

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Apostle speaks of in his ministry often the

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experiences in his life.

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I have to say that I am likely

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speaking on on the behalf of a good

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number of fellow servants and overseers and those

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obviously right here in stout that we are

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not only encouraged but very impressed.

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Very impressed with a number of young people

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at this conference.

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Good to see you.

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It's good to have you.

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Now I know a number of assemblies that

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are represented here with younger people today but

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I do not know every assembly to which

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some of these younger people I'm speaking to

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this afternoon to which you belong.

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Or to put it language of this chapter

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that we have read together including this young

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man where these saints were gathered together.

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Gathered together.

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I would hardly think that young believers that

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young brethren and young sisters that appreciate a

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local gathering would be found in a larger

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gathering such as we have here at the

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conference in stout.

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But how delightful and how encouraging to see

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you and to have you with us.

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I appreciate the announcements that have been made

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relative to that.

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The last thing that I think we should

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do and I'm afraid not to be too

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critical of the church here in Trinidad what

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was happening.

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They were taking a young man in their

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midst for granted until something happened.

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Can we do that brethren?

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Unfortunately it happens.

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Sometimes there's a young brother you know he

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just may not be up to your status

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quo.

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It may not just be you.

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But he is a young brother.

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A young sister that God has entrusted to

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your care.

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To your company.

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And the last thing that we ever want

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to do is take him or her for

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granted until something happens.

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Now you know if you to talk to

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maybe some of them they say oh you're

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doing us yeah that's him in the window

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there.

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Oh did you ever tell him that was

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a dangerous place to sit?

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Oh no we don't tell him that.

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You know mom would be on her neck.

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That happens.

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We're gonna wait till he breaks his?

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Taking him for granted.

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Since there are many lights in the it

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says there are many lights in the upper

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chamber.

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Here was a church that didn't function in

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the dark.

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But if one of those lights were was

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the light that was coming into the window

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here was a man a young man he

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didn't realize what he was doing.

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He was obstructing the light.

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He was affecting the brilliance of testimony.

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If you'll just allow me to apply it

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that way.

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You see brothers and sisters how delightful it

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is to have those in our testimonies young

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and old.

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You understand?

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You're either contributing to the brightness of that

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testimony or you're affecting its light.

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You know I've been thinking of late if

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sometimes we spent as much time contributing contributing

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to the testimony as we can do criticizing

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it.

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We'd be in a lot better shape.

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We would be moving forward by bounds and

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leaps.

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How about it today?

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When I speak to someone what was the

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last thing that you did for that local

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testimony of yours?

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Seriously, what was the last thing you did?

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Contributed to it or criticized it?

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Anybody can criticize it.

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And usually it's my experience and my observation

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that those that are contributing to it aren't

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criticizing it.

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And those that are criticizing it are not

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contributing to it.

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Now how is a young man sitting in

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a window going to contribute to that assembly?

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It's interesting that when it comes to the

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fall, he did not fall inside.

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It's almost like taking a child, a kid

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with you.

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I remember my dad, I don't know, we

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just grabbed what was our closest, but he

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risked taking us sometimes to London and we

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go to a super or a what's a

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cedar store then or whatever and he'd look

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down at him and I said, oh come

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on, you had your boots on the wrong

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feet.

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Well there is a chance you put them

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on the right one, but most kids get

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them on the wrong feet.

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Just happens.

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He didn't like it and that wasn't bad

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till one day we showed up the same

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sheer store and I don't tell you which

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one it was because I might get back

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to him, but he had two left boots

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on.

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I'm gonna take my candles to do that,

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wouldn't it?

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My poor father, I'm gonna go to the

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store and kind of own us with two

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left rubber boots on.

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Now the point is this, there's only one

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of two directions in which he could fall

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and he falls out.

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You know why that is?

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That was the direction to which he was

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leaning.

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Now dear young brother, dear Christian today, maybe

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older ones, what direction are you leaning?

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The wise man Solomon tells us that the

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direction to which the tree is leaning, it'll

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fall.

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Where are the tendencies of your Christian experience?

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Were they causing you to lean today?

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One or the other?

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I was thinking the Christian experience is a

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lot like riding a bicycle.

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You're either going forward or you're falling off.

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This man was not making progress.

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He was falling off.

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Remember, isn't the words of the Prophet, Zechariah

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says, run and speak to this young man.

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Speak to this young man.

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Just speak to him.

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Dear young brother, and I'm sure you understand

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that, when the overseers come and speak to

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you, please, please, they're only trying to help

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you.

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Okay?

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They only want to see in you development

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and progress.

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They're not being hard on you.

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If you come with a suspicious attitude when

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they're trying to help you, there's something wrong

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with you.

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You say, well that's my business, that's their

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business.

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It's sad that nobody here would speak to

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him.

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I have nothing here in the passage that

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tells me there was ten other young brethren,

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nothing there.

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I sometimes have those come to me and

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they say, you know, well our boy just

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didn't make it.

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He just didn't make it.

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There is nobody else in the assembly.

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He's the only young one there.

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Oh?

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Think nobody else survived that way?

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Brother McLeod knows him maybe not as well

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as I do.

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We have a young man in our assembly

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in Sussex.

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He didn't start in Sussex.

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He started in an assembly with eight in

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fellowship.

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Four of them would be his family.

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The only young man there there ever was.

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Had children's meetings.

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I said to him, I said, so who

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went out and helped get the children in?

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He said, didn't have anybody else.

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I got my sister to go with me.

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Good for him.

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Did he survive it?

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Sure did.

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Has he got gift?

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He sure has.

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Is he a help to the assembly?

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Yes.

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Married a lovely wife, lovely couple.

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You just love to have them.

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No, not everybody.

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Not everybody in our local assembly has the

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gift and the ability of a Joseph Potter.

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We have others that you might say are

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slightly challenged.

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So what?

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So what?

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That brother will rise to his feet on

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the Lord's day morning and worship God with

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what he's got.

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While sometimes others that could stay in their

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seats.

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Where do you sit in the assembly?

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Where do you sit?

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You sit in the window or do you

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have a place?

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Remember, you could go through the Bible and

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find some very dangerous sitting scenes.

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One is with Eli.

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An old man falls backward off the seat.

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You say, well, how could a man hurt

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himself sitting?

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Don't read your Bible.

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It becomes very obvious.

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So here's this certain young man.

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Here's a man.

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Here's a young man.

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And do you understand today that you're not

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one of many.

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You are certain young man.

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I agree.

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There's too many that are copping out.

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They used to want the responsibility of it.

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Basically, they want some things out there in

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the world that they know they cannot do

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in the assembly.

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So their choice, unfortunately, is to go to

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a place where they could do that.

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You are today, dear sister in the assembly,

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a certain young sister.

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You are, dear brother, a certain young man.

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That's you.

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You go through the Bible and whatever that

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expression is used, it's not used just to

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fill the pages of your Bible or my

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Bible.

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It is used to distinguish them.

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You know what I think really distinguished this

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man, Eutychus, was the potential that he had

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that wasn't being realized by himself, by the

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assembly.

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How about you?

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There's nobody here today that I'm sure say,

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hey, I'm up to my potential because I'm

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not.

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But I want to tell you, I admire,

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I admire a good number that I know

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that are giving a lot more percentage into

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it than maybe I am even as a

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servant in full-time work.

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God bless them.

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Certain young man being fallen into a deep

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sleep.

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Now, wait a minute.

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Wait a minute.

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I only can speak from experience.

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If I decided to sit in a window,

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I don't think I would fall asleep the

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first time I sat there.

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You see, there would be kind of a

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danger element, wouldn't there be?

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And you'd say, I gotta be careful here.

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This isn't bad.

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You know, I'm not really down in there

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and I'm not really out there.

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I'll just sit here.

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I don't think I'd fall asleep the first

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time.

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But maybe after a few months, you get

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used to it.

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You get used to it.

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You'd almost forget you were there.

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Decided to say this church was going on

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without him.

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Until.

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Until.

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And it says that Paul was long in

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preaching and he fell down from the third

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loft and he was taken up for dead.

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I will not take time to go into

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the words that are given to us in

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verse number 10.

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It says that the apostle went down and

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fell on him, embracing him, said, trouble not

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yourselves, for his life is in him.

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That must have been wonderful news.

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And we didn't lose him.

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And he's got life.

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Brethren, we cannot function in the testimony of

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those that don't have life.

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Wonderful to see evidences of life.

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Must have been so comforting to that church

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where they come back.

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He says his life is in him.

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And it took something like this to prove

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that the young man really had life.

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Don't allow that to happen in your experience.

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Let there be evidences of life.

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And one of them is that you will

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be gathered together with the company.

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I'm sorry to say, not just because this

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is my line at this moment, but if

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this stout conference does not have an effect

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upon our love for the word of God

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that commands us to be gathered together as

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a local church, and if this doesn't make

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me or you a better attender of the

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assembly, that's really what I'm saying, okay?

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Anybody here that couldn't do it just a

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little better?

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Now I realize there's shift work.

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I realize there's seasonal work.

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I spent some time farming, too.

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Spent some time in business, like no longer

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than I should have.

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There's likely more business in me now than

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there should be, too.

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Let me ask you, you want to make

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a difference with you?

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Are you saying there are, you know, we

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just can't, hey, come on, wait a minute.

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Let me ask you, brother, you ever driven

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a better vehicle than you're driving now?

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Were the roads ever better than they are

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now?

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Minus spring potholes.

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Really?

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No.

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Down our way the same way.

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There's never a time we can go point

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to point quicker, easier, and better than we

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can now.

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So we're better attenders at conferences?

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At assembly meetings?

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If we're not, you know where we're sitting?

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And you could be my age today and

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that's where you're sitting.

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Remember, you will fall in the direction to

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which you are leaning.

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You know, listen, life has come on.

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Come on, let me speak to my generation

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today.

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You and I could do nothing about the

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length of our lives, okay?

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We've already had too many birthdays.

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That's right, John.

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We're both on the same medicine for the

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knees.

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We've had too many birthdays.

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I can do nothing about the length of

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it.

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But you know something?

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I can do something about the depth of

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my life and the breadth of it and

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making it count for God.

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I would just like to have captured the

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faces of these believers as they brought them

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up.

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The words that are used for the Apostle,

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let me go back to that, that he

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embraced him.

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He stressed, it's similar to what you have

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with the prophet in the Old Testament as

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he spread himself upon the child.

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He brought himself down to the size of

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the child.

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In other words, he brought himself to the

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circumstances of which that child was found.

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You see, that's what we fail to do

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sometimes.

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We just look at him as a number,

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a young man sitting there in the window.

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We forget needs that he had.

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He says, trouble not yourselves for your life.

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Why?

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They were troubled.

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And they would be troubled.

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It was the only young man.

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In other words, the future of this testimony

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depended on him.

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The future of testimony, brothers and sisters, depends

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in measure on all of us.

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But to you, young brother, you are the

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future.

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You are the future.

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May you leave this conference today, and may

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I leave it, asking myself the question, not

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only where do I stand relative to the

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assembly, but where am I sitting?