>> Just 50 days after Jesus
resurrection with his teachings
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in Ascension still echoing
in their hearts. Believers from
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everywhere gathered in Jerusalem
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as the cost on the United
Nations in this pivotal moment,
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define fire was
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through their faith movement.
Wasn't night forever. Change
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the course of his join us as
we explore the use of you shall
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receive power.
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>> Hello and welcome back
to 3, A B n's fall homecoming.
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Candy, we're so glad that you
join us here this evening has
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been a full day, hasn't
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but a blessed. And thank you
for joining us at home or maybe
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your listening on the radio.
You are missing a lot by not
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being here in person, but we're
so glad for technology. Are we
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that if you can't make it
3ABN is still able to reach the
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entire world? The satellite,
of course, Internet and radio,
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you know this evening, this
is Evan looking forward to this.
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I have the privilege
of introducing my wife
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tonight. She has the
last message for this evening
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and just last week, last
Friday matter of fact, we just
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celebrated 21 years of marriage.
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And no, we didn't get
married at 12 years of age.
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You know, she is
the love of my life.
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And I remember when I first met
her, we are in college and we
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met in the college cafeteria
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and we said at the same table
and I said, man, I was struck
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by her beauty, of
course, and I said, wow,
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what class for you? She said
freshman and I was the he S the
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freshman to.
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And, you know, it's
interesting. You get a lot of
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impressions as young person and
the impression that I got when
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I was there eating lunch with
her was you're going to marry
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this lady one day. And I
was like, yes, Lord, I hope that
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comes true. And it did.
We've been married again, like I
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said, 21 years.
And what a blessing.
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You know, I have to say also
that it's a blessing to be in
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ministry which ill my wife
or offices just down from mine.
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It's incredible to be ministry
together to serve the Lord
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together. She's a
woman of the word,
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a woman who loves others and
most importantly, a woman who
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loves the Lord.
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The message is going to bring
this evening is power of self
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sacrificing love
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going to do something a little
bit different. There's actually
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going to be an appeal song
toward the end of her message.
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>> Thank you for the high.
What a privilege to have your
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husband introduce you should
be kids right now. Now I think
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we're we're on live television.
So I think we should pause and
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do that later.
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Happy Sabbath.
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I have been
blessed by can't meeting
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you shall receive power.
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I need power. I
want power in my life.
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I was so blessed sitting
backstage, supposed to be
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looking at my notes. But
instead I was captured by what
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Doctor David Shinn
shared. What a powerful message,
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the power to forgive.
We're looking here. The power of
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self-sacrificing. Love
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you work to 3ABN with China.
Most you don't. You would know
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that Jill needs help with
the simple emails after 06:00PM.
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That's because I'm a morning
person. I do my best work early
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in the morning and you all
know what time it is right now.
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It's 8 so we will pray together
that the Lord will give make
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coherent thoughts. Tonight,
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the power of
self-sacrificing laugh.
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Some of my favorite scriptures
in the Gospel is John, 13 to
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John 17.
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You see in John 13, we see
the upper room experience Jesus
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washing the disciples feet.
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Then you come down to John
18 and Jesus is arrested in
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Ghassemi. So this passage,
John, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 is
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Jesus is last words to the
disciples. He knows he's going
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to the cross. He knows that
soon. He will sent his father
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and he doesn't have much time
left with the people that he
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loves. What were those final
words that he gave to those
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people? We see that in John
13. 34 35 John, 13 34 35 a new
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commandment. I give to you.
They all become vegetarians.
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Is that what it says?
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A new commandment I give to you
that you honor the Sabbath more
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perfectly.
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A new commandment. I give to
you that you start paying ties.
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Thank you. A new commandment
I give to you that you love one
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another. All of those things
are important or not negating
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any of them.
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But he says you love one
another as I've loved you.
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But you also love one another
by this. All will know that you
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are my disciples. If you have
love for one another. You go
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just a couple chapters later,
John, Chapter 15, we find this
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first 12. This is my
commandment that you love one
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another as I've loved you.
Greater love has no one than
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this than to lay down one's life
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for his friends. Power of self
sacrificing love. Let's pray.
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God we come
before you right now.
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I need you desperately.
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I ask for a call from off your
alter. I pray that your word
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would come a life with your
home. The spirit, the poor down
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with Jesus be lifted up
and honored and glorified God.
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We want us see you tonight.
We want to experience that
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power of
self-sacrifice seen laugh
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and we ask all this in
the precious and holy name of
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Jesus. Amen.
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I was speaking at a
women's retreat some time ago
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and one of my favorite things
about women's retreats is not
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opening up the word. Although
I love to open up the word it's
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to hear their stories. I love
to hear the journey that God
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leads each one of us on how
he brings us from darkness into
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light what he's done in
our hearts and in our lives and
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never forget this one woman
we were talking, we'll call her
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name and that's
not her real name.
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She said Chill God's
doing amazing things in my life.
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And just in the last year,
my husband and I were reconciled
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in the last year. The
estrangement and our marriage
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is gone away and I love
him again in the leg last year.
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I've come back to church and
I found Jesus again. And I said
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to her, what made the
difference in your life?
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Why did you come back to
Jesus? Why did you come back to
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church? Why is
your marriage re store?
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And she said initially, you
know what? I'm not sure why.
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And then she said I
know exactly why my daughter
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has been training for me
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sometimes as young people.
If you grew up in a home that's
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maybe dysfunctional or not the
best we could develop a victim
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mentality, could we not?
Well, my parents should be the
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one praying for me. Well, my
parents should be taking care
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of me. Well, my parents should
be doing something. And yet
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this precious young girl prayed
every day said God would do a
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work in her parents life
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and God showed up
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greater love has no one
than this than to lay down one's
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life for his friends. We're
dividing the message tonight
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into 2 sections. The first
section over here is re store
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EV on lovable. How do we
love people? We don't like
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you have anybody you don't like.
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Maybe I should go home today.
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I can think of several. If
I'm being honest with you right
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now,
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how to love people you don't
like coming over here. The 2nd
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half of the message we're
looking at Reese and responding
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to the walled.
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How do we love people
who want except laugh?
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How do we love people that have
a wall up and won't let you in?
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Let's start over here. The 1st
half of her message re story in
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the on lovable. How do we love
people that we don't naturally
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like
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we've all met them. Have we
not the person who rubs you the
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wrong way? The one who gets
on your nerves. The showoff know
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it all. The one who's always
right? Or who puts other people
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down the one who criticizes
others or judges? Others.
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The one who manipulates the one
who's a whiner or a complainer.
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The one who's lazy. Maybe it's
just the one who's not like me.
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You love those. You don't like
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for answer. We're going to
Matthew Chapter 5 terms made in
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Matthew Chapter 5. This is, of
course, the sermon on the Mount
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Matthew Chapter 5. We're going
to look at 2 verses in the word
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of God. And from there, we
would discover Ford Keys to how
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we can love those that we don't
naturally like how many kids
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are going fine
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for Keith. Good job. So
in Matthew 5, we see these
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antithetical statements.
These are contrasts teen
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statements. You know what Jesus
said. He said you have heard
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that. It was said you should
not murder. But I say to you,
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even if you hold hatred in your
heart, it's the same thing as
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murder. You've heard that it
was said you should not commit
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adultery, but I say to you,
even if you have lost in your
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heart, it's the same thing
is committing adultery. What he
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says he's doing was
revolutionary for the people of
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that time. He saying the law
is wholly Justin good. It is so
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much deeper and broader.
It reaches into every asked.
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Expect of our thoughts,
our motives and our hearts.
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We get to the last of these
antithetical statements and
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that's where we find out how to
love those. We don't like where
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Matthew 5, 43. And 44,
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Matthew 5.43, you've heard that
it was said you shall love your
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neighbor and hate your enemy.
That's really the people we
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don't like.
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But I say to you with that word,
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love your
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and a maze.
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Key number one in learning to
love those we don't like is to
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recognize that love
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is the principal.
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It's not a family
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now I am hopeless romantic.
So I do believe that love has
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feelings. Absolutely. However,
love its foundation is a
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principle. It is not feeling
feelings come absolutely.
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But love is a principle.
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It's a command to love.
He doesn't say I say to you,
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well, if you like them, you
can choose to love. No, he says
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love your
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enemies. It's a command.
First on for 11, says the same
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thing beloved if God so
loved us. We also to love one
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another. It's a command.
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Keep your finger in. Matthew
5 were coming back there.
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Terminated. First Corinthians
13. This is what we understand
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to be the love Chapter. First
Corinthians chapter 13. It's
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amazing to me
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because it starts
out by saying this.
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If you have spiritual gifts,
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we think that's pretty
important. Do we not? But love
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is more important than that.
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You see someone up front
who preaches and we think wow,
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look at that person.
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Love is more
important than that.
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The gift of prophecy is
that important. Love is more
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important than
that. The gift of faith
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love is more important than
that. What about the gift of
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sacrifice are giving to other
people to help them? Love is
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more important than that.
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Even the gift of martyrdom.
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It's as if I give my body to
be burned and we think a look at
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that person and
their sacrifice love.
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It's even more important or we
could say love is why we do all
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of those things. If we keep
going versus 4 through 7 0st
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Corinthians 13, it says Love
suffers long. Love is patient.
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Is patients a feeling or choice?
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Well, you can feel patient
clearly. But do you have to
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feel patient act patient
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love suffers long and he's
kind. He's kindness of feeling
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or choice.
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You can feel kind toward other
people. But do you have to in
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order to have kind
thoughts or kind words?
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It's a choice. Love does
not envy its contents, mend a
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feeling
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or a choice.
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Love does not trade itself
is not puffed up is humility of
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feeling
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or choice loves not behave.
Rudely does not seek its own is
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and selfishness of feeling
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or a choice.
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Love is not provoke fink's.
No evil is thinking the best of
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other people of feeling
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or a choice loves is does
not rejoice in iniquity but
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rejoices in the truth
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is seeking the truth.
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A feeling or a choice
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love bears. All things
is enduring under pain and
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hardship. A feeling
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or a choice.
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Love believes all things symbol
is believing and those that
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loves in spite of all
appearances. Is that a feeling
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or a choice?
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Love hopes all things is hoping
even under discouragement,
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a feeling
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our choice. So when we look
at every story envy on lovable,
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key number one is to recognize
that the principle of love,
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it's a choice. It is not a
feeling sore. Matthew 5.44,
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I say you love your enemies.
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I just love recognize that it's
a choice to reach out in love.
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Last those who
curse you. Key number 2
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with kindness. You know,
they're not your response to
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people we don't like is what
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irritation negativity,
criticism on forgiveness,
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bitterness,
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judgment,
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Molly Stinson. She was my
predecessor here at 3 Angels
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Broadcasting network. And she
was a vice president here for
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many years. A woman of
God, many of you would know and
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remember and love her. She had
a saying that I loved. She said
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watch your thoughts.
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They become words. Watch
words. It becomes your actions.
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Watch your actions. It becomes
your habit. Watch your habit.
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It becomes your character.
Watch your character. It
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becomes your destiny.
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Proverbs. 31 verse. 26. She
opens her mouth with wisdom and
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on her tongue is
the law of kindness.
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That word
kindness in Hebrew. His set
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means goodness and kindness.
It's since this is of the 2
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words.
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It's always outward.
Never self-seeking translated,
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loving kindness or mercy.
It's the same word to use the
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limitations. 3, it is of the
lords mercies that we are not
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consumed because his
compassions they fail not
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you see kindness. We establish
that love is a principle.
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That's key number one and love
is a choice. Not a feeling but
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kindness. You're night using
kind thoughts toward others.
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And speaking kind words,
guess what? That's not a feeling
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either.
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A choice
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message up to 12 Jesus.
Speaking to the Ferris sees
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Matthew 12. 34 he says how can
you be evil? Bring good speak
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good things. In other words,
whatever is in the heart is
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eventually going to come out
is not. We can pretend we can
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think everything's fine.
We can act like we are good
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Christians, but
whatever is truly in our heart.
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There are 37, by your words,
you'd be justified. By your
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words, you will be can down
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words come from our thoughts
and our thoughts reveals our
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heart
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reveals a for converted.
It reveals if we know Jesus,
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it reveals if we
falling in love with him.
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The words reveal that. So when
we talk about love and those we
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don't like he number one
is love is a principle, not a
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feeling. He number 2 is says
think kind thoughts, speak kind
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words, key. Number 3, we've got
actions now. Act with goodness.
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We're still in Matthew 5.44,
I say do you love your enemies?
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That's real. Love is a
principle. Bless those who
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curse you. This is the thinking
kind thoughts and speaking kind
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words do good to those who hate
you. You know, they say actions
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speak louder, then
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works
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actions. Just express
what's really in the heart.
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Remember, Mary, she bought
expensive, prefer few. She went
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and anointed Jesus feet.
Remember that story with the
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alabaster box broke. It
annoying to Jesus feet and she
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watched his seat with her tears
and dried it with her hair.
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Now is that in action
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it's an action. She had to buy
the perfume. She had to go to
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his feet. She had to wash them
and drive them. What did that
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action reveal?
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It revealed. Love.
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It revealed probably that
she knew she'd been forgiven.
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It revealed. Love by contrast.
Think about Judas. He betrayed
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his master with 30 pieces of
silver. Now, is that an action?
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What does that action reveal?
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The trail?
Jealousy, maybe greed.
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What about Joseph of Arimathaea?
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He gave his tune for the Jesus
to be buried in. Now. If you
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read the scriptures, Joseph was
a silent disciple. He was part
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of the sand he'd run. He'd
been afraid to come out before
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afraid to come out in in favor
of Jesus. And yet at that time
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when he said Jesus can
have my tomb, was that an action
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and what that action reveal?
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Love
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that he had made his choice and
he was standing on Jesus sign.
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What about by contrast, Jesus
when he went back to Nazareth?
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Remember, he spoke in the
synagogue and that people got
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really mad. Remember that?
And they tried to push him off
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the cliff to
remember that story.
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And Jesus does
escape through their midst.
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Was that an action?
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Would you say pushing someone
off a cliff or attempting to is
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that in action?
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So what did that
act? Shannon reveal
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they hated him. What else
would have revealed? They were
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jealous of him.
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He's from that and that's our
hometown. We grew up with this
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guy. We know him.
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How can he claim to be the
messiah? How can heal all these
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people? Lot of people make such
a fuss over him. What about the
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woman with the issue of blood?
Remember, she reached out and
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touch the hand of Jesus
garment. Is that in action?
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What did it reveal?
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It revealed that she had faith
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that he could heal her.
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By contrast, the man who was
born blind. You find the story
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in John Chapter 9. He was
born blind. Jesus healed him and
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restored his eyesight. And
then what happened? The parents,
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he's cast him
out of the synagogue.
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Is that an action?
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And what did that action reveal?
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Selfish
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hate JAL lists, right? If you
are a leader of a synagogue in
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this other guy brought a
lot more followers and when you
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feel a little jealous of him.
So the point is actions reveal
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the state of our heart
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and you might be saying,
well, I can't conjure up good
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actions. Of course not.
Jeremiah tells us that the
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Ethiopian can't change the
color of his skin and a leopard
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can't take the spots off
his hide, right it. Then it says
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then you may. You also do
good who are accustomed to doing
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evil. In other words, our
righteousness is filthy rags.
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There's nothing in and of
ourselves that we can do to be
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changed.
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Only the blood of Jesus.
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Only his forgiveness, only
Jesus coming in and changing us
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from the inside out. That's the
only way any actions are going
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to change. So
let's look at key for
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key. One is love
is the principal.
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It's not a feeling. He too is
its think kind thoughts and see
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Baek kind words. He 3 act with
goodness. And that only comes
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because God has taken up
residence to the power of the
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Holy spirit and your heart.
And in mind, key number 4 is to
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pray for those
people that you do not like.
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I say. Do you love your
enemies? Bless those who curse.
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You do good to those who hate
you. Pray for those who spite
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fully use you and persecute you?
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Probably 10 years ago I stepped
into a room. It was a large
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room almost the
size of this room
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and I stepped into the room
and I'll never forget that there
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was a woman at the other end.
And she she was my friend and
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I'm super excited. I'm going to
go see my friend and I started
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halfway across the room
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and I did discover that
she was talking about me.
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There's a whole
crowd of people around her.
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And the words just came out
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critical
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the little wing
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and I thought there were lies.
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I never forget. I stopped in
the middle of the room and I to
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stop.
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I thought we were friends.
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You know, the sense
of betrayal. You can
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and everybody turned around and
I ran out to my car and I just
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sat there and cried.
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And then I did what any
good Christian woman thinks they
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ought to do. And what's that?
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I chose not to gossip. I
said, well, you know, most woman
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talk. So I'm going to do
the Christian. I'm going to be a
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big girl. I would do the
Christian thing and I will not
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cost up about her. I would not
talk badly about her. And when
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I saw her, I put on a
little plastic smile and I said,
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hi, how are you?
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I buried my bitterness.
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I buried my and forgiveness.
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Time passed a week a month
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a year.
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And I did not realize that
it was still buried in my heart
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because I pushed it down
so deeply. And one day I was
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working on memorizing new
scripture for me at the time it
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was he was 12, 14 15
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and it says follow peace with
all men and holiness, without
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which no one shows. See
God looking diligently. Plus 10
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years you fail of the grace
of Christ. Let any route of
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bitterness springing up trouble
you and there by many people be
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defiant. And when I read
that Tripp, sure immediately got
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brought to my mind and heart
chilly. You have bitterness in
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your heart. It's buried so
deep, but it is there. And if
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you hang onto this bitterness,
it would destroy you.
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It would destroy your marriage
and it will destroy your
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ministry.
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And I remember going before God
and saying, I don't want this.
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I want your life. I want your
forgiveness. I don't know how
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to change me. You haven't been
there God. I can't change that.
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I can't change was inside.
And he like me on a journey.
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This is the first key. He
led me on a journey to pray for
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this woman.
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Now, you know,
Jill wanted to do.
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I'm trying, but I can pray.
Maybe she had a car accident.
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What's that?
That's revenge is not.
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And I didn't mean anything
serious. I just want to take a
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break or hand, you know, got
just something to make spurious
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some pain.
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He said, I want you to pray,
bless scenes over her. And I
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said, God, that's hypocritical.
You know, I don't mean that.
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.93
And he said, I want you to
pray it anyway, because, again,
00:26:09.93\00:26:13.44
it's a choice.
00:26:13.44\00:26:15.10
It's going to get to pray.
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And I remember the first day
getting on my knees and I felt
00:26:16.94\00:26:19.31
like such a fake Christian.
00:26:19.31\00:26:22.64
And I remember I said,
God, would you bless her today?
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And he said keep going.
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And I said called you, would
you bring people into her life
00:26:27.12\00:26:30.75
that would encourage her
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God. You bless her with health.
We do bless her marriage and
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her ministry and her children.
Would you open up doors for
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heard minister and every word
I said so fake because I didn't
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want it. I couldn't feel it.
And yet I wanted in the depths
00:26:46.27\00:26:51.67
of my heart to honor God.
00:26:51.67\00:26:54.11
And I knew that he wanted me
to do this. And still the first
00:26:54.11\00:26:58.41
day pass to nothing happened
in the second day passed and
00:26:58.41\00:27:01.22
nothing happened and the 3rd
day passed and nothing happened
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and it's been so many years.
I couldn't tell you how many
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days it was
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.76
that I know
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I still remember the
day got broke my heart.
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.46
I was praying the same prayer
feeling the same hypocritical
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sense.
00:27:17.37\00:27:18.67
And this one day I was praying
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and a change of heart
00:27:21.17\00:27:22.77
that bitterness that desire for
revenge. That Ames was released
00:27:22.77\00:27:29.61
from my heart
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.48
and he flooded me with laugh.
You know what that experience
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taught me?
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I struggle with forgiveness.
00:27:35.75\00:27:38.25
I teach me how to forget.
00:27:38.25\00:27:41.62
I can hold a grudge
00:27:41.62\00:27:43.86
called teach me how to let go.
00:27:43.86\00:27:48.23
I care about what other people
think of me. If I didn't care
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or her words wouldn't bother me.
00:27:52.07\00:27:54.10
God teach me how to
live for the audience of one.
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I struggle with pride.
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God teach me your humility.
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I don't know who in
your life, you know, like.
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But I want to challenge you
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as we close out this
first section on loving those.
00:28:12.19\00:28:15.12
You don't like
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practice these principles.
00:28:17.19\00:28:20.50
Recognize that love is
a principle, not a feeling
00:28:20.50\00:28:25.03
speak kind words,
think kind thoughts
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back to his goodness. And that
only comes when God transforms
00:28:28.70\00:28:32.11
our hearts. All of these things
take place because a prayer.
00:28:32.11\00:28:38.08
When we play when we get in the
word dog changes our hearts and
00:28:38.08\00:28:44.35
the actions change in the stock
exchange. And even that feeling
00:28:44.35\00:28:48.52
of love changes
00:28:48.52\00:28:51.53
from a practical perspective
in my own personal journey,
00:28:51.53\00:28:55.26
one of the ways that helps
me the best in loving those I
00:28:55.26\00:28:58.03
don't like is to learn a little
bit about their own journey.
00:28:58.03\00:29:02.17
You know, when you see here
a person's past, when you hear
00:29:02.17\00:29:05.87
the things they have gone
through, it gives you and the
00:29:05.87\00:29:08.78
sea and it gives compassion.
We're sometimes before we're a
00:29:08.78\00:29:13.28
little resistant.
00:29:13.28\00:29:14.62
What about
responding to the walled?
00:29:14.62\00:29:16.99
How are we to love those
00:29:16.99\00:29:19.62
who have walls?
Who won't except love?
00:29:19.62\00:29:23.89
Why did people wall off
00:29:23.89\00:29:26.70
times
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.33
maybe on the
one they don't like?
00:29:28.33\00:29:31.43
Is that possible? Of course
it is. So there are times maybe
00:29:31.43\00:29:35.60
there are walled off
00:29:35.60\00:29:38.84
because they hold a
grudge toward you or toward me.
00:29:38.84\00:29:41.51
That's possible.
00:29:41.51\00:29:42.91
I think one of the
main reasons people wall off
00:29:42.91\00:29:46.11
as they don't think
that there were easy
00:29:46.11\00:29:49.45
to accept or receive
other people's laugh.
00:29:49.45\00:29:53.46
You see if you can accept
yourself or love yourself,
00:29:53.46\00:29:56.79
how can you accept and
receive love from other people.
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When you look at the key
of responding to the walled,
00:30:01.93\00:30:06.63
how do we reach out to people
who have won walls and barriers
00:30:06.63\00:30:10.87
erected?
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I think the first key you're
going to say, Joe, this makes
00:30:12.41\00:30:14.61
no sense at all.
00:30:14.61\00:30:16.38
But stay with me. The first key
is to offer unconditional love
00:30:16.38\00:30:21.58
and you say, oh, I don't
even understand that. So I have
00:30:21.58\00:30:24.52
their walled. So why
would I even offer them love?
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I was a young teacher,
fresh out of college, innocent,
00:30:29.16\00:30:32.89
naive. She was a beautiful
girl, upper classmen academy,
00:30:32.89\00:30:38.13
blond hair, peaches
and cream complexion,
00:30:38.13\00:30:41.77
even white teeth.
00:30:41.77\00:30:43.87
I was so caught up
00:30:43.87\00:30:46.44
in the business of teaching for
the first time that it really
00:30:46.44\00:30:51.81
didn't take time to sit down
and ask about her heart to see
00:30:51.81\00:30:55.58
how she was really doing inside.
00:30:55.58\00:30:59.22
You see she was walled
00:30:59.22\00:31:01.52
and I didn't know it
every time. I say how you doing
00:31:01.52\00:31:04.43
today, she would smile so
sweetly and she was so kind and
00:31:04.43\00:31:10.23
she would say miss
chill on doing really well.
00:31:10.23\00:31:13.80
But she actually wasn't.
00:31:13.80\00:31:17.17
She was walled.
00:31:17.17\00:31:19.41
You know, sometimes we think
the wall people are prickly.
00:31:19.41\00:31:22.44
The wall people locked, respond
with irritation. The wall.
00:31:22.44\00:31:25.78
People don't love us back.
But sometimes you can't even
00:31:25.78\00:31:28.58
tell a person's Wald. They look
the part they dress the part.
00:31:28.58\00:31:33.56
They smile. They do all
the right things. And you don't
00:31:33.56\00:31:37.89
know that they're dying inside
because they hide that behind a
00:31:37.89\00:31:42.83
wall. And that was the case
with this beautiful young girl.
00:31:42.83\00:31:45.77
We went on retreat a few
months into the school year.
00:31:45.77\00:31:49.70
And I never forget, she said
Miss John, can I talk to us at,
00:31:49.70\00:31:52.31
of course.
00:31:52.31\00:31:53.68
And so she pulled up her sleeve
00:31:53.68\00:31:55.88
and on her forearm, I
saw that she'd been cutting.
00:31:55.88\00:32:01.12
And I said, I'm so sorry.
She said, no, no, you don't
00:32:01.12\00:32:05.65
understand. And she turned
her arm and I could see she had
00:32:05.65\00:32:10.29
herself to spell the word help
00:32:10.29\00:32:15.33
H
00:32:15.33\00:32:16.67
e
00:32:16.67\00:32:18.57
you see she was wall
00:32:21.00\00:32:22.97
White.
00:32:22.97\00:32:24.67
I didn't know there was pain in
her life and I was so busy and
00:32:24.67\00:32:29.81
so glib. But I see how you
do in Sweden today. All missed
00:32:29.81\00:32:33.88
fight
00:32:33.88\00:32:35.15
and she's
cutting help on her arm.
00:32:35.15\00:32:37.89
She's in pain and she's hurting.
00:32:37.89\00:32:41.96
If you want to get behind
the wall that other people are
00:32:41.96\00:32:47.30
holed up.
00:32:47.30\00:32:49.03
All for unconditional laugh
00:32:49.03\00:32:54.20
awakens left
00:32:54.20\00:32:55.90
love. Never forces were
not compelled to follow God.
00:32:55.90\00:32:59.51
We follow God
because he first loved Us.
00:32:59.51\00:33:02.94
Love Awakens. Love
00:33:02.94\00:33:05.71
from us 5. You know, I love
the book of Romans from us. 5
00:33:05.71\00:33:09.42
versus 6 when we were
still without strength and time
00:33:09.42\00:33:13.76
Christ died
00:33:13.76\00:33:16.09
for the ungodly
00:33:16.09\00:33:17.93
wind chill
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.33
spat in his face.
00:33:19.33\00:33:21.13
When I was watched
00:33:21.13\00:33:22.66
when I wanted to do my own
thing when I didn't want to
00:33:22.66\00:33:26.70
follow God
00:33:26.70\00:33:28.64
when God said chill come
my daughter and I said God,
00:33:28.64\00:33:31.27
I want anything to do with you.
He loved to me and died for me.
00:33:31.27\00:33:38.55
Love weakens laugh
00:33:38.55\00:33:41.62
for scarcely for
righteous men were in verse 7
00:33:41.62\00:33:44.65
scarcely for Righteous man.
One die to perhaps for a good
00:33:44.65\00:33:48.86
man.
00:33:48.86\00:33:49.82
Some would even dare to tie
00:33:49.82\00:33:53.13
but
demonstrates his love for us.
00:33:53.13\00:33:58.37
And that while
we were yet centers,
00:33:58.37\00:34:02.44
he died for us. The
word yet in Greek means still
00:34:02.44\00:34:07.41
even now
00:34:07.41\00:34:09.18
when I'm walking in Sen
00:34:09.18\00:34:12.68
he died for me.
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.08
Never under
estimate. The power of left
00:34:14.08\00:34:18.92
change only
occurs because of laugh.
00:34:18.92\00:34:21.96
He saw me and he pursued
me. I've been rereading Jose,
00:34:21.96\00:34:27.13
especially Hosea Chapter
11. I want to write you to turn
00:34:27.13\00:34:30.47
their Hosea Chapter 11.
00:34:30.47\00:34:33.30
Jose M is though Prophet who
gave the last divine appeal to
00:34:33.30\00:34:40.18
the northern tribes of Israel.
They were taken away into
00:34:40.18\00:34:44.18
captivity to assyria and 7.22.
BC and this is just a few years
00:34:44.18\00:34:48.72
before that time
00:34:48.72\00:34:50.25
now, remember, Israel had
split. There was David. He
00:34:50.25\00:34:53.79
ruled the United Israel
10 following David Solomon.
00:34:53.79\00:34:57.39
His son ruled remember
what happened after Solomon. The
00:34:57.39\00:35:00.43
kingdom was split and Renton
to the 10. Northern tribes
00:35:00.43\00:35:05.83
followed with a young upstart
by the name, a terrible the 2
00:35:05.83\00:35:10.07
southern tribes when with
Solomon's son, his name was
00:35:10.07\00:35:14.61
Rehoboam.
00:35:14.61\00:35:15.98
So there was this split.
But even though there was a
00:35:15.98\00:35:19.65
split, both the North and
the South, we're spiritually
00:35:19.65\00:35:23.75
bankrupt, both of them
00:35:23.75\00:35:26.69
worshipped idols. Both of them
had turned their back on God.
00:35:26.69\00:35:32.33
Now the 2 southern tribes.
Remember, they were taken about
00:35:32.33\00:35:34.86
100 years later into Babylonian
captivity. Remember that they
00:35:34.86\00:35:39.00
were there 70 years. They re
Penn did and God brought them
00:35:39.00\00:35:43.14
back to the land of drew slump.
00:35:43.14\00:35:45.47
But that same thing did
not happen with the 10 Northern
00:35:45.47\00:35:47.94
tribes.
00:35:47.94\00:35:49.31
Remember, they
were taken to assyria
00:35:49.31\00:35:52.01
completely annihilated
00:35:52.01\00:35:55.88
as a people. Now, that doesn't
mean you that there wasn't
00:35:55.88\00:35:59.89
forgiveness is extended to
people within that. But as a
00:35:59.89\00:36:02.92
people, a group they
cease to exist after that time.
00:36:02.92\00:36:07.76
The theme of Hosea is the
anguish of Steadfast Love.
00:36:07.76\00:36:13.50
You see if a person's life
is temporary and fickle, then
00:36:13.50\00:36:16.77
unreturned love or rejection
presents. No major problem
00:36:16.77\00:36:21.74
week. Love it simply seeks
another object. What I mean by
00:36:21.74\00:36:26.21
that
00:36:26.21\00:36:27.58
if I love somebody here and
they say, you know what do I
00:36:27.58\00:36:30.55
do? Love you today.
00:36:30.55\00:36:32.19
Be like, okay, fine. I'll
go find someone else to love.
00:36:32.19\00:36:35.22
Is that strong lover week? Love.
00:36:35.22\00:36:37.56
It's week. Love
00:36:37.56\00:36:39.09
by contrast. When love
is steadfast, rejection
00:36:39.09\00:36:44.60
and unfaithfulness
caused unspeakable pain.
00:36:44.60\00:36:49.17
Love goes on. Even when the
object of a love know longer
00:36:49.17\00:36:53.24
returns it and tremendous
suffering results. That's what
00:36:53.24\00:36:58.15
we see in the book of Hosea.
We see a dog who has steadfast
00:36:58.15\00:37:02.78
love. He's not saying OK,
Israel, I'm done with you.
00:37:02.78\00:37:05.79
I'm going to find someone else
to live. He loved them with an
00:37:05.79\00:37:09.32
everlasting love and
they say we don't want you.
00:37:09.32\00:37:12.93
Where do our own thing.
We don't care about you.
00:37:12.93\00:37:16.77
The tremendous suffering we
see in the heart of God and yet
00:37:16.77\00:37:21.67
their walls are they not
children deserve God. We don't
00:37:21.67\00:37:24.47
care about you.
They have their walls up
00:37:24.47\00:37:27.24
and God says I love you
00:37:27.24\00:37:29.18
and he keeps extending
unconditional love story.
00:37:29.18\00:37:32.38
Hosea 11 verse 3, Jose Leaven
3. This is from the new living
00:37:32.38\00:37:37.79
translation. I like how
this passage reads there. I'm a
00:37:37.79\00:37:41.59
south to Israel how to walk
leading the him. By the hand.
00:37:41.59\00:37:47.10
He's saying I
love you from baby hood
00:37:47.10\00:37:50.10
but he doesn't know or even care
00:37:50.10\00:37:53.44
that it was. I who took care
of him. God saying I love you is
00:37:53.44\00:37:56.94
they're saying we're walled.
We don't care. We don't care
00:37:56.94\00:37:59.67
that you took care of us where
a child. We don't care that you
00:37:59.67\00:38:02.31
love us. God. We don't.
00:38:02.31\00:38:05.15
First 4,
00:38:05.15\00:38:06.35
I like Israel along with
my ropes of kindness and love.
00:38:06.35\00:38:10.72
He says I love you. I'm
extending kindness to you.
00:38:10.72\00:38:14.82
I lifted the yolk from his
neck and I might self. This is
00:38:14.82\00:38:19.76
stopped speaking. I stooped
to feed them verse 5. He should
00:38:19.76\00:38:25.00
not return to the land of Egypt
but the Assyrian should be his
00:38:25.00\00:38:28.24
king. This is that prediction
taking place that would come in
00:38:28.24\00:38:31.54
just a few short years
when the Assyrians would come
00:38:31.54\00:38:35.68
because why would the Assyrian
be as King? Because they
00:38:35.68\00:38:38.58
refused to repent.
They're walled off.
00:38:38.58\00:38:42.02
My people
00:38:42.02\00:38:44.09
are bent on backsliding from me,
00:38:44.09\00:38:48.19
though. They called
the most high. None at all
00:38:48.19\00:38:51.26
exalt him verse 8.
00:38:51.26\00:38:54.40
This verse commentators
say is one of the most amazing
00:38:54.40\00:38:59.17
descriptions of God's inner
struggle and the scriptures
00:38:59.17\00:39:02.77
many times we don't see into
the heart of God. We don't know
00:39:02.77\00:39:05.34
why he does what he does.
We can guess from outside and
00:39:05.34\00:39:09.38
we know God is love. But
this is his inner struggle over
00:39:09.38\00:39:13.48
Israel. The people he loves
so steadfastly and yet there
00:39:13.48\00:39:18.95
walled they don't want anything
to do with him. First date,
00:39:18.95\00:39:23.76
how can I give you up is rat?
00:39:23.76\00:39:27.66
How can I let you go?
00:39:27.66\00:39:30.17
How can I just Roy? You like
Admiral demolished? You like
00:39:30.17\00:39:33.13
the boy. Those were 2 cities
that were overthrown when S****
00:39:33.13\00:39:37.04
and Gomorrah were overthrown.
00:39:37.04\00:39:39.74
My heart is torn within me that
were torn similar to an inner
00:39:39.74\00:39:44.68
earthquake.
00:39:44.68\00:39:47.22
My compassion
00:39:47.22\00:39:48.95
overflows.
00:39:48.95\00:39:50.69
So how to we
00:39:50.69\00:39:52.92
love those who
won't except laugh.
00:39:52.92\00:39:57.43
Key number one is to offer
unconditional love like the
00:39:57.43\00:40:00.80
large resistant
00:40:00.80\00:40:02.43
to Israel as we saw just there.
00:40:02.43\00:40:05.20
But we understand that
that love is not always return
00:40:05.20\00:40:10.37
as it was in this case.
00:40:10.37\00:40:12.41
God's people
00:40:12.41\00:40:13.98
never
00:40:13.98\00:40:15.88
returned back to him as the
people now. And there could be
00:40:15.88\00:40:19.11
individuals return back
but never did as a people. Key.
00:40:19.11\00:40:22.55
Number 2 is to be patient.
00:40:22.55\00:40:27.16
You know, when we extend
unconditional love to others,
00:40:27.16\00:40:30.49
it takes time, does it
not? We continue to love and
00:40:30.49\00:40:33.96
sometimes they say, but I don't
know if your love is fickle.
00:40:33.96\00:40:36.30
I don't know if you're going to
change. I remember my poor mom,
00:40:36.30\00:40:40.57
mom.
00:40:40.57\00:40:41.77
I was very difficult when
I was an early teenager and
00:40:41.77\00:40:46.11
she and heard.
00:40:46.11\00:40:47.68
Thank you, Bruce.
00:40:47.68\00:40:49.08
She under a great deal of
00:40:49.08\00:40:52.28
ship because of me. And I
remember lain awake it night,
00:40:52.28\00:40:59.02
dreaming up
ways to make her mad.
00:40:59.02\00:41:02.49
And I thought I'm going to make
her mad. I'm going to make her
00:41:02.49\00:41:06.46
mad.
00:41:06.46\00:41:09.30
But when God got ahold of
my mom's life, it didn't matter
00:41:09.30\00:41:12.17
what but not push. It
didn't matter how hard I push it
00:41:12.17\00:41:15.67
didn't matter anything because
she loved me unconditionally
00:41:15.67\00:41:21.01
and she extended God's love
to me and she exemplified Jesus.
00:41:21.01\00:41:29.18
And that's the reason
I chose Jesus for myself
00:41:29.18\00:41:32.52
because I saw that
Christianity worked.
00:41:32.52\00:41:35.96
I saw that it was not just
a bunch of rules or stories in
00:41:35.96\00:41:41.13
the word
00:41:41.13\00:41:42.46
that there was power
00:41:42.46\00:41:44.23
in Jesus and then the Holy
Spirit. And when Jesus comes
00:41:44.23\00:41:48.84
into our heart and life,
the transformation is like night
00:41:48.84\00:41:53.38
and day. So my mom was patient.
She was clearly patient was
00:41:53.38\00:41:56.64
made during those years.
00:41:56.64\00:41:59.61
Let's look at the Maia.
00:41:59.61\00:42:01.32
I knew I picked up my baba for
reason. Nehemiah. We're going
00:42:01.32\00:42:04.92
to Nehemiah chapter 9.
00:42:04.92\00:42:06.89
Love this. We see this
00:42:06.89\00:42:09.22
Fuld cyclical pattern
exemplified in the life of the
00:42:09.22\00:42:15.20
Israelites.
00:42:15.20\00:42:16.70
You can see this Nehemiah
chapter 9 again, give you what
00:42:16.70\00:42:19.47
the 5 are. And then we'll look
at this. New mine. 9 is kind of
00:42:19.47\00:42:22.57
or recapture of the history
of the children of Israel
00:42:22.57\00:42:27.51
and the 5 fold. His first day
walk and disobedience. They're
00:42:27.51\00:42:31.38
walled. The wall goes up, God,
we don't want you God. We don't
00:42:31.38\00:42:35.48
live. You were going to do our
own thing. Number 2, God brings
00:42:35.48\00:42:38.82
judgment upon the people.
He says I have to do something
00:42:38.82\00:42:44.59
to breach the wall to get
through. To show you that I
00:42:44.59\00:42:49.26
love you. I always say God
uses the gentlest means possible
00:42:49.26\00:42:55.77
to get our attention.
00:42:55.77\00:42:57.74
And if the dental means doesn't
work, sometimes he uses some
00:42:57.74\00:43:01.34
stronger means.
00:43:01.34\00:43:02.78
So we have disobedience.
Then we have judgment to me.
00:43:02.78\00:43:07.78
Every pen tense, the people,
the wall comes down. God will
00:43:07.78\00:43:11.39
let you in God. We want you to
love us. Then it always closes
00:43:11.39\00:43:16.73
with mercy and for deliverance.
So let's look at this. We're in
00:43:16.73\00:43:21.53
the Miami 9 0st. 26 Nehemiah
9.26. Nevertheless, they were
00:43:21.53\00:43:27.30
disobedient. Remember,
the first step was always
00:43:27.30\00:43:29.57
disobedience. So wall goes up.
They rebelled against gone to
00:43:29.57\00:43:34.71
cast their lot behind their
backs. The killed your profits
00:43:34.71\00:43:37.85
who testified against them to
turn them to yourself and they
00:43:37.85\00:43:41.48
worked. Great provocations
are blasphemy. So the people are
00:43:41.48\00:43:46.12
disobedient. They are wall
called this a God. We don't
00:43:46.12\00:43:50.89
want you God. We
want to do our own thing.
00:43:50.89\00:43:54.63
Then here comes judgment, verse
27 there for you. Deliver them
00:43:54.63\00:43:58.30
into the hand of their enemies
who oppress them and men.
00:43:58.30\00:44:02.14
And what did the judgment bring
00:44:02.14\00:44:04.34
repentance and the time of the
trouble when they cry to use,
00:44:04.34\00:44:08.31
they're crying out God, we're
sorry, God, we want to repent,
00:44:08.31\00:44:12.51
God, we want the
wall to come down
00:44:12.51\00:44:16.15
and what happened. Mercy and
deliverance. According to your
00:44:16.15\00:44:18.79
abundant mercy. He's you
gave them deliverance. Who saved
00:44:18.79\00:44:23.32
them from the hand of our
enemies and what happens the
00:44:23.32\00:44:25.46
next first after they address
the addenda again did even
00:44:25.46\00:44:28.96
before you did you catch that?
00:44:28.96\00:44:31.03
God had just delivered them.
They had every pen today in the
00:44:31.03\00:44:34.84
wall came down, God delivered
them. And what did they say?
00:44:34.84\00:44:39.64
Wow, walking right back into
disobedience and more happens.
00:44:39.64\00:44:43.35
Judgment comes there for you,
left them in the hand of their
00:44:43.35\00:44:46.15
enemy. So they had to
inning over them yet hair comes
00:44:46.15\00:44:49.78
repentance again. When they
return to cry to you. You heard
00:44:49.78\00:44:53.92
from have been here comes
the liver is combined with mercy
00:44:53.92\00:44:58.19
and many times you deliver
exam according to your Mursi's.
00:44:58.19\00:45:04.87
Now it's happened
twice. Are we done
00:45:04.87\00:45:08.47
yet the active proudly and did
not heed your commandments but
00:45:08.47\00:45:11.07
sinned against you,
judge. We are going back to
00:45:11.07\00:45:12.77
disobedience
00:45:12.77\00:45:14.14
yet which if a man does he show
live by them, they shrug their
00:45:14.14\00:45:17.05
shoulders and stiffen
their necks and would not here.
00:45:17.05\00:45:19.95
Yet many years were in verse
30. You had patience with them
00:45:19.95\00:45:25.55
and testified against him
by your spirit and your profits
00:45:25.55\00:45:28.32
yet they would not
00:45:28.32\00:45:31.39
listen.
00:45:31.39\00:45:33.19
Therefore, here comes the
judgment again. You gave them
00:45:33.19\00:45:36.93
into the hand of the people of
the lands and then we see God's
00:45:36.93\00:45:41.04
Mursi's and deliverance
when the people repent.
00:45:41.04\00:45:45.91
That passage tells me it's
a whole lot of scripture. It
00:45:45.91\00:45:49.18
tells me simply this
00:45:49.18\00:45:52.38
God's patients
00:45:52.38\00:45:54.75
with me.
00:45:54.75\00:45:56.38
It's incredible.
00:45:56.38\00:45:59.15
How many years is that?
00:45:59.15\00:46:01.32
How many years did they say
God? We're doing our own saying
00:46:01.32\00:46:04.49
God, we want to walk in our own
way. God, we're wall as it were
00:46:04.49\00:46:10.27
God. We don't want to follow you
00:46:10.27\00:46:11.90
and he says all, but I love
you. And would you please come
00:46:11.90\00:46:14.77
back to me and they re penton.
He says over reconciles again
00:46:14.77\00:46:20.11
and I love you and I want you.
00:46:20.11\00:46:24.18
And then Jill says all things
are going really good right
00:46:24.18\00:46:27.02
now. I think I can
make it without God.
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He didn't really help me that
much before I'm going to do my
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own saying net.
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And then he says, oh, please,
we do come back to me. The
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patients have gone
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is incredible.
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How do we love those who
are walled? How do we love those
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who will not accept laugh,
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reach out, offer that
unconditional love and extend
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patients.
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And to be clear, when we
talk about loving those who are
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walled, I should have brought
this up before. We're not
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talking about abuse,
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completely different situation.
So if you are in an abusive
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situation, God is not
saying that you don't have any
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boundaries and you allow
yourself to be abused. That's
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not what we're
talking about here.
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What we're talking about
is those times and places
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where people are walled around
us and God says I want to break
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fat
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in 19 0 for William Board and
graduated from high school in
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Chicago. He was heir to
his family's fortune as his
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graduation present. He
got a trip around the world
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hit a growing burden for
the hurting people that he
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discovered when he came
back. He said I want to be a
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missionary. Remember, he
was heir to his family's fortune
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and people said you're
throwing your life away to be a
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missionary. Your intellectual,
your rich, why would you be a
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missionary?
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>> And he wrote in
the back of his Bible,
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2 words,
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no reserve.
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>> You see when God calls you
and I to reach out to those we
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don't like
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when God calls you and I to
reach beyond the wall and to
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offer unconditional love for
others. We need to do that with
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no reeser.
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In 19 0, 5, he went to
Yale University as a freshman.
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He was deeply spiritual.
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He began to pray with other
students. And by the end of his
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freshman year, 3 100 students
Met Weekly for Bible study and
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prayer.
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By the end of his senior year,
over 1300 students Met Weekly
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for Bible study and prayer.
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He founded the Yale Hope
Mission to help rescue those
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who were drunk. He reached out
to the orphans and the windows
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at the time of prayer
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and they would pray for
people on campus. And there's a
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particular person who was
walled. Other people didn't
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like maybe a little prickly,
maybe a little difficult to get
00:49:21.29\00:49:25.46
through. He would always
say give that person to make.
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And I want to pray for that.
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He graduated from Yale, turned
down several high pain job
00:49:32.17\00:49:36.60
offers
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and accepted a call as a
missionary to the Muslim people
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in China.
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He wrote in the back of
his Bible. 2 more words,
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no retreat.
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You see when we put our hand
to the plow when you and I reach
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out and say, yes, God, I
want to reach out in love. Yes,
00:49:58.39\00:50:02.86
Scott, I want to reach out.
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We cannot turn back.
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He went
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to do graduate work at
Princeton Seminary. This is
00:50:10.31\00:50:13.14
preparing himself to be a
missionary to those in China,
00:50:13.14\00:50:17.61
the Muslim people, he sale to
Egypt to study Arabic en route
00:50:17.61\00:50:22.22
to China to work with the
Muslims. While he was in Egypt.
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He contracted spinal meningitis
and died within a month.
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They found in the back of his
Bible to more words written no,
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we grant
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so you can look at his
life and say maybe he felt
00:50:43.10\00:50:47.04
he could have
00:50:47.04\00:50:48.38
Don a lot successful.
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And yeah, he answered
the call of God on his life
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and no matter what the
end result is, there is
00:50:55.48\00:51:00.69
no we can't
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I don't know of as I have
been talking here this evening.
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Is there someone in your life
00:51:07.50\00:51:10.57
who came to mind
00:51:10.57\00:51:12.30
when I said, how do we
love people? We don't like
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someone come to mind.
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Is there someone in
your life that's Wald
00:51:18.07\00:51:23.38
that's hard for
you to get through
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for whatever reason. You can't
seem to help them know that you
00:51:25.95\00:51:30.19
love them. They
won't let that wall down.
00:51:30.19\00:51:36.09
Who does God
00:51:36.09\00:51:37.86
one us to laugh?
00:51:37.86\00:51:39.83
Maybe your wall.
00:51:39.83\00:51:43.33
You're sitting here tonight.
00:51:43.33\00:51:46.43
A smile on your face were
in church. Weren't 3ABN can't
00:51:46.43\00:51:51.57
meeting.
00:51:51.57\00:51:52.74
I'm doing great.
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And yet you're like a girl who
cut herself and wrote how fun
00:51:54.74\00:51:59.75
here are endured. I mean, inside
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[MUSIC]
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Reggie and Lady and Danny,
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we're going to sing
one of my favorite songs.
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I am loved.
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I can raise loving you
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for the Ron knows me back.
Loves me. Most you see when you
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and I are for given
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we can dare to love our
brothers. When were forgiven,
00:52:27.11\00:52:31.81
we can reach out and take
the hand. And as they sing this
00:52:31.81\00:52:38.62
song
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on a vine you if you're feeling
wall tonight on a fight to come
00:52:39.85\00:52:44.19
for,
00:52:44.19\00:52:45.76
pray together at the end it
00:52:45.76\00:52:47.83
if you have people in your life
who are walled, take God wants
00:52:47.83\00:52:52.50
you buy them power of his
spirit to reach out and touch
00:52:52.50\00:52:55.70
it hatch and to extend Christ's
love. Drew you to that person.
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Would you come forward? Just?
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[MUSIC]
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>> I can to.
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[MUSIC]
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We need to use
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[MUSIC]
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>> you well into my
00:53:40.68\00:53:47.32
[MUSIC]
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we.
00:53:54.86\00:53:59.00
[MUSIC]
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>> Ice. And if you knew me.
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[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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>> I mean, but I'm too.
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>> This space. I will.
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>> And
00:54:17.75\00:54:20.69
[MUSIC]
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>> in my time
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my scars go to.
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[MUSIC]
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>> For you.
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>> Then
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[MUSIC]
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>> too.
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>> See that
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I love seeing.
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[MUSIC]
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>> You are too. He came I.
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>> We are.
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>> We?
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>> I mean, he gets I look easy.
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>> And
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>> we the fuel line
little did I really still and
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[MUSIC]
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>> I?
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[MUSIC]
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>> I reached out to sea.
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[MUSIC]
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>> Well, you know, the mayor has
00:56:23.28\00:56:29.05
hello.
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[MUSIC]
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>> Well, to be th we
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[MUSIC]
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these.
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>> We.
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>> And
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>> thank you so much. Thank
you. God that you love us and
00:57:23.10\00:57:26.64
we open up our hearts to be
loved in return. She since name
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[MUSIC]
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