Participants: J. D. Quinn (Host), Troy Fitzgerald
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000405
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00:01 Today, we're gonna be looking at questions that God ask us.
00:04 Did you know that He ask us about our Sabbath rest? 00:08 Stay with us, see where this goes. 00:36 Welcome to "Issues and Answers." 00:37 My name is J.D. Quinn. 00:39 Today, we're gonna have a wonderful time with the Lord 00:42 and then we're gonna be talking 00:43 about the questions that God ask us. 00:46 And a person has done a lot of study 00:48 in this arena is Pastor Troy Fitzgerald, 00:51 and I just am glad that you're here with us today, 00:54 we want to welcome you. Thank you J.D, yeah. 00:56 First thing that we want to know, Troy, 00:57 is a little bit about yourself, 00:58 is it okay I call you Troy? 01:00 That's fine, that's what everybody else, 01:01 that's the best thing that most people call me so. 01:04 Amen, amen. Yes. 01:05 Well, tell us who you are? 01:06 Tell us about your family, tell us where you live? 01:08 Tell us what your responsibilities are? 01:10 Just I want to know something about you. 01:12 All right, well, I am the pastor 01:13 for Youth and Young Adult at Walla Walla University Church. 01:17 I've been there 12 years and my wife Julia 01:21 and I have been serving in ministry, 01:25 teaching and pastoral ministry for almost 20 years now. 01:30 And so I have two boys, 01:33 Cameron, who is about 13, 01:36 and Morgan who's 7 going on 8. 01:41 I guess, they're typical boys. 01:42 They like, they probably like sports, they-- 01:45 They're boys, all boys, you know, 01:48 we gotta hose them off outside at the end of the day. 01:50 Amen, amen. Yeah. 01:53 Tell us about your education. 01:56 Well, I started studying just to be a pastor, 02:00 I thought I wanted to be a teacher, a pastor. 02:03 I did my Bachelors in Theology 02:06 and then afterwards, you know, I studied at the Seminary. 02:10 And then I noticed something that was interesting 02:13 and that was the most of the work of a pastor had to do 02:17 with teaching and I didn't know anything about teaching 02:19 and, and teaching and telling teaching and preaching. 02:24 Learning and listening are sometimes 02:26 two different experiences 02:28 and so I looked at Jesus as the master teacher, 02:32 I thought, I need to learn how to teach. 02:35 And so I got my masters in education. Okay. 02:38 So I can learn how to, how to teach and then 02:42 I eventually went on to do my doctorate in leadership. 02:45 Amen, why leadership? 02:47 Just leaders and leadership is one of those elements 02:53 of our culture right now that, 02:56 that are pastoring people thoughts change, 03:00 we need to understand the fundamentals 03:04 of leading people toward change. 03:07 We live in a world that's broken. 03:10 Our world has shifted, the world views of people 03:13 in this world have shifted and we need to understand 03:15 what it's going to take to move a group of people 03:19 from this place into another era. 03:22 And if you're out there 03:23 and thinking now everything is just fine, 03:25 or let's just do things the way we used to do. 03:28 Then you probably don't think leadership is very important. 03:34 But if you're looking for a new day, 03:37 then leadership is one of the primary things 03:39 that we need to be thinking about so, that's why I didn't. 03:42 Amen. Yeah. 03:43 One of the things that this program is about 03:46 questions that God asks. 03:49 And so in your opinion, what is one of the most 03:52 important questions that he ask of us. 03:54 Well that's hard, because I believe that 03:57 throughout scripture all of the questions that God asked 04:00 have some sort of challenge to us 04:04 to either think about what's going on inside 04:07 of our heart or what we're doing in our lives. 04:09 Usually when God asked the question, 04:12 it's usually because He wants us to respond, 04:16 He wants us to think and stop 04:18 and may be do something differently to change. 04:23 So throughout and it's hard to just pick because, 04:28 because so many of the ones 04:29 we have are good and yet, you try and count. 04:31 I mean, I would ask the people in their homes 04:34 they just think about all the questions 04:36 that you can list that God has asked people 04:38 and there hasn't, it's hard to come up with. 04:40 But when you scan through scripture, 04:41 we see God interacting, 04:43 one of the questions that has meant the most to me, 04:48 that's been perhaps the one of the harder ones to answer, 04:53 is the question that Jesus asked people 04:56 in church about Sabbath rest. 05:01 It's one of those awkward moments 05:06 that Jesus is in church 05:08 and if you're a pastor, the one thing you hope 05:10 never happens is somebody stands up 05:12 and causes a scene and breaks the routine. 05:16 And yet Sabbath rest should be the most 05:20 important thing to us because it just, 05:24 because what it means. 05:26 And what does it mean? 05:27 Well, the Sabbath is given to us because, 05:32 if we don't have Sabbath, 05:34 our brokenness just turns to dispirit to the point 05:37 where we forget who we are. 05:38 And we're running, we're a people right now 05:41 that it's running, we're running so hard. 05:44 And right now, you know, people are watching 05:46 or listening, you know, they're exhausted. 05:49 Very few people are gonna raise their hand and say, 05:52 I just feel so rested and ready. Amen. 05:55 I am not, you know, I've got tons of energy 05:57 and I'm ready to go. 05:59 No, that's not it. 06:00 In fact, some of the more recent survey 06:02 show that the people, 66, 67% of people out there 06:06 describe themselves as exhausted or drained, 06:09 over 50% of people have responded 06:13 and said that they feel overwhelmed. 06:16 And I don't think it's getting any better. 06:19 So when -- and maybe it was the same 06:22 back in the days of Christ, maybe, you know, 06:25 people are just as tired as they are now. 06:28 But we have things coming out so fast right now, 06:31 we have the news is on TV, 06:33 we have two faces up on the screen, 06:35 they're arguing back and forth, 06:37 below there is the weather, 06:38 there is a ticker tape of the stock market, 06:40 there's scores and highlights 06:42 and there is what's coming up next. 06:44 It's all coming at us at once all the time, 06:47 we're exhausted. 06:49 But back in the days of Christ, it was simple, 06:52 they didn't have that, but people were still very tired, 06:56 they're not tired necessarily from lack of sleep 06:59 but they're exhausted by trying to run their lives 07:03 in their own brokenness, 07:05 being held captive by their habits 07:08 or by their fears or by loneliness or isolation, 07:12 I mean, people are exhausted just based upon the depression 07:18 that's running through their veins right now. 07:20 So that moment, I think it's in Luke 13, 07:24 where the story is told. 07:25 Where Jesus walks into church and He's there 07:30 and the Bible says that there is a woman 07:33 who had been crippled, bent over for 18 years. 07:39 Eighteen long years and, and they're reading 07:42 and they're singing and they are praying 07:43 and they are doing the stuff and Jesus 07:46 just has his visceral reaction to a woman 07:50 that's been broken, bent over. 07:53 I mean all she has seen. 07:54 You talk about tiring, exhausting, 07:57 all you see are the cobblestones. 07:59 All you see is the garbage in the gutters, 08:02 when you walk to and from home or to the market, 08:05 all you see are the feet, the dirty feet of people, 08:08 you never ever see the sunshine, 08:12 you don't feel it on your face, 08:13 the wind doesn't blow on your cheeks, 08:16 you don't look and listen to the birds singing in the air. 08:20 Those things don't -- aren't a part of your reality, 08:22 you're walking and you're bent over and you're down. 08:25 And that's the way you're bent for 18 years 08:28 and Jesus could not stomach it. 08:31 And so He does something on Sabbath in church 08:36 that well it got the saints a little riled up. 08:41 And He healed her, He just said 08:44 "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 08:49 And she stood up. Amen. 08:51 She could see now well, you know, 08:53 how the choir directors tell us to sing. Amen. 08:55 You have to, you know, chin up, mouth wide open, 08:58 she's singing. Amen. 09:00 And the leaders, well they were disrupted by that, 09:05 they didn't like that. 09:06 And Jesus heard them and one of them actually 09:09 stood up and said, no there are six days in which 09:12 and you can just see the fan on six days 09:15 in which you come for healing but on the Sabbath day, 09:20 no healing and Jesus is saying, wait a minute, 09:22 I think I gave you this rule a long time ago 09:25 and it was not, it was, 09:26 it was supposed to be about freedom, 09:28 do you remember the story. 09:30 And so He says, He asked the question and I think 09:34 it's a question not just for that day but for us today. 09:38 He said, isn't it, 09:40 isn't this is what God wants us to do on the Sabbath? 09:43 He says, "This should not this child of Abraham, 09:48 his daughter of Abraham be set free on the Sabbath day." 09:54 Amen. 09:56 And how you are gonna answer that question 09:58 because He invoked something very unique there. 10:01 He called her a daughter of Abraham. 10:05 He says, you are. They understood that. 10:07 Oh yeah, because he pointed out, he says, 10:09 don't you know, you guys not, you untie your dog 10:12 if it's caught tied up around the tree, 10:14 you won't leave it out there. 10:16 If your ox falls into the ditch, 10:17 you'll pull your ox out, 10:19 a dog, an ox, this is not a dog, 10:22 this is not an ox, this is not your pet pig, 10:24 this is a daughter. Amen. 10:27 A princess, a daughter of Abraham and she's bent over 10:32 and you're angry because we set her free on the Sabbath 10:36 don't you even know about rest? 10:40 That's really Jesus' questions. 10:42 Have you not experienced the rest of the Sabbath? 10:47 And that applies to probably a lot of us today. 10:51 You know, a lot of people are very confused. 10:54 Ask the question to yourself today. Yeah. 10:57 Are you whole, or do you feel rested, 11:01 have you experienced the true Sabbath rest 11:04 and it's Adventist that's been in our name, 11:06 it's been a part of our life, our theology for years, 11:09 we know where it came from. 11:11 Well, why is the Sabbath so important? 11:13 It's because it's given to us a creation before sin. Amen. 11:16 We have the Sabbath, 11:17 it's not just a part of God's salvific plan 11:21 this is a part of who we are as humans. 11:24 It's our birthday. 11:25 Your birthday doesn't come around once a year, 11:27 it comes every week where you are reminded 11:30 that you are born again child of God. 11:34 You're made in his image. Amen. 11:36 And if you skip it, if you miss it, 11:38 if you work through it, if you ignore it, 11:40 if you focus all on your own stuff through it, 11:43 you're going to forget who you are. 11:47 And that's one of the reasons why God gave it. 11:49 And you know the example I always give is, 11:52 go to the Old Testament 11:53 when God's people were put into slavery. 11:56 They not only disobeyed God but they just, 11:59 they just fell back into the world 12:01 where they were absorbed by Egypt. 12:04 They started to think like Egypt 12:06 instead of God's children, 12:08 they started to act like Egypt they worship like Egypt 12:11 until their minds were changed 12:12 and they were Egyptians in every sense of the word. 12:16 If there was anything in them, 12:17 it was this story way back in history 12:20 something that they may be remembered 12:22 that their grandparents telling them about Yahweh, 12:26 about the God of Israel. 12:29 And when God delivered them, He brought them out, 12:33 here we have God's people 12:35 out on the sandy shore of the Red Sea. 12:39 You know, they're being told, guess what? 12:42 It's time to meet your God, He's your creator, 12:45 wait a minute, I thought we were created by a cow 12:50 or this golden emblem over here, 12:52 this animal over here, but no, it was God. Amen. 12:57 And they are told the story 12:59 and they're given the laws and the laws, 13:01 six days God created the heavens and the earth, 13:04 He made you and the seventh day He rested 13:07 and that's He sanctified it and He set it aside. 13:10 Not because He wanted to give us a rule, 13:12 not because we needed a day go to church, 13:14 not because you know, 13:16 of all these theological ramifications 13:18 because He knew that if you didn't celebrate your birthday 13:22 you would forget who you are and who you belong to? 13:27 And in the end, where you're going. 13:29 And that's why the law has given a second time, isn't it? 13:31 Because in Deuteronomy, 13:33 we have the same reading of the law 13:35 except there is one little difference to it. 13:37 It says, because I redeemed you, 13:39 because I delivered you from Egypt, 13:42 that's why you have the Sabbath day. 13:45 Celebrate the Sabbath, because don't you know, 13:47 I took you out of Egypt, well who is he saying that to? 13:51 He's saying that to the people who are born in the desert, 13:54 Deuteronomy is written to people 13:55 who are born in the desert. 13:56 No one was there in Egypt. 13:58 They don't know what Egypt looks like? 14:00 They don't know what the plagues were all about? 14:03 They were in the desert and he says you're delivered. 14:07 So two places, in the law that Moses gave, 14:12 you're created by God, don't forget who you are, 14:15 don't forget that birthday. 14:17 You're delivered, you're saved. 14:19 Even though you are born here in the desert, 14:21 all you have known is sand 14:22 and all you have heard about is the Promised Land. 14:25 We're going home, we're going home, we're going home. 14:27 Well, here is why because someone delivered us. 14:31 And that's why in the Book of Hebrews 14:33 it talks about Sabbath rest 14:35 and it's connected with salvation. 14:37 The rest of salvation for your souls, 14:39 I mean people are tired. 14:41 I love that story, 14:44 I love the story of this dog named Tattoo. Great. 14:49 It's a story I read in the Seattle Times I think it was, 14:53 this is owner, Tattoo's owner, you know, 14:57 got in the car and backed up but the leash, 14:59 Tattoo's leash got caught in the door, the back door. 15:03 And Tattoo was spotted chasing after the car 15:07 and there were down some of the back streets, 15:09 but Tattoo was having a hard time keeping up, 15:12 one foot infront of the other and it's a basset hound, 15:15 you know that, they don't go very fast 15:17 and they're not very long legged. 15:19 And Tattoo was trying as hard as he could to keep up. 15:22 One foot in front of the other as fast as 15:25 those little paws could carry him. 15:27 Cop speeds up I think, 15:28 one police saw what was happening 15:30 and caught the dog going up to 20 miles an hour, 15:32 25 miles an hour before he pulled the car 15:35 and the dog over and Tattoo was tired. 15:38 And I think a lot of people 15:39 out there today feel that exhausted. 15:41 Like all they can do is think about one foot 15:43 in front of the other and they're exhausted 15:46 and they don't have a rest, they don't have an identity, 15:49 they don't have a sense of who they are 15:50 and where they're going. 15:51 They don't have that notion of Promised Land. 15:54 They don't know how they're gonna get there 15:56 because they know they're broken. 15:57 They know they're lost. 15:58 And who's gonna save them, who is gonna be their deliver? 16:02 And so they're just running as fast as they can 16:05 and they don't know where they're going. 16:07 They don't know why they're going there, 16:08 they just know that they just gotta move that, 16:10 that foot forward and they're exhausted. 16:13 And that's why in our world today, 16:16 even as it was back in the days of Christ, 16:19 we need the Sabbath rest, 16:22 we need to stop and take a look where we've been. 16:27 And it seems like to me that I'm beginning to notice 16:30 that lots of people are beginning to look 16:35 more at the Saturday Sabbath. 16:37 In fact, I know I thought ten years ago 16:39 I think I picked up a little journal, 16:42 it's called Discipleship Journal 16:45 and in it was a whole series on the Sabbath 16:49 and I looked every word of the article 16:51 all the way down to may be one sentence at the end. 16:54 It sounded like something that I would write 16:56 or one of my professors would write 16:58 or one of my pastors in the Adventist church would write. 17:02 What's going on out right here? 17:04 Book after book after book has been released now 17:07 and that has to do with the Sabbath. 17:11 And it's not just the Adventist, 17:12 they're talking about it, 17:14 we've been talking about for over 150 years 17:16 and we are just going back through history, you know, 17:20 through the 17, 15, 16, 1700s Sabbath was being kept. 17:23 And going back even through the middle ages 17:25 God has had people to be the commandment 17:27 keeping people and have always responded, 17:29 there always been someone staying connected 17:32 to who they are, and where they're going. 17:35 That identity going all the way back to the time of Christ, 17:38 the New Testament Church. 17:40 But of late, I don't know what's causing it? 17:45 And I don't know what the resurgence is, 17:47 all about but I think it has to do with the fact 17:50 that humanity has come to need Sabbath 17:55 from an experiential point of view. 17:58 Theology has been out there for a long time 18:00 but now we just feel tired. 18:03 We feel empty. We feel disconnected. 18:08 We feel like we don't know where we came from. 18:12 We don't know why we matter? 18:14 Why it makes a difference? 18:16 We don't know where we're going. 18:19 We just know that's it's uncertain 18:20 and it's scary for a lot of people. 18:23 And the beauty of that one truth of the Sabbath 18:27 takes us and wraps us up together 18:29 and binds us to God and unmistakable to turn away. 18:33 I just don't want to let go. 18:34 I want to answer that question. 18:36 Why should not we be free, 18:39 set free on the Sabbath, why not? 18:42 Why not celebrate it. 18:44 So that's just one of those questions 18:46 that from week to week I have to ask. Amen. 18:49 And so as one of these youths would come up to you 18:52 and they ask this question 18:53 and I imagine it's gonna become asked more often. 18:57 Yeah. Because people are looking 18:59 for truths right now. Oh. 19:01 So how do handle them, 19:02 they will say what do you do on the Sabbath? 19:03 I mean how can I keep the Sabbath? 19:05 That's true, you know in Deuteronomy, 19:07 it's not just today but in Deuteronomy Chapter 6 verses, 19:09 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, 19:11 and all your soul, all your strength." 19:13 It says in verse 20, 19:14 just read on through that chapter and verse 20, 19:17 in verse 20 it says, that one of these days 19:19 your children are you gonna come up to you and say to you, 19:22 hey, what's up with all these rules and regulations 19:25 and why we have to do this? 19:27 And why can't I do that and why do I do that? 19:29 And you can say, 19:32 'cause the Bible says so, or 'cause God says so. 19:34 Yeah, that answer's too cheap. It's not good enough. 19:38 We have to answer it more fully. 19:40 And the answer that we're told to give in Deuteronomy is 19:43 tell them that you were a slave in Egypt 19:47 and God brought you out with a mighty hand. 19:49 Tell them that, that God delivered you 19:53 as He landed the plagues on Pharaoh. 19:55 Tell them about how the Red Sea parted 19:58 and you walked there on that soft sand 20:00 looking at the fishes, like walls along side of glass. 20:04 Tell them the story of your redemption. 20:07 So when they do ask, that's what scripture tells us, 20:11 tell about the story of your history, your past, 20:15 how you're redeemed, how you were born. 20:17 And then they came up to me 20:18 and I was studying the Bible with them. 20:21 As I was saying, Jeremiah, 20:24 you know, do have any questions about the Sabbath, 20:27 and this young person is very devoted to God. 20:31 But he's very sequential, 20:32 he wants to know exactly 20:33 what there is to do and what not to do. 20:35 And I'm trying to get through to him, 20:36 and said, this is about who you are. 20:39 You get to take what God has said 20:43 and you flesh this out in the best way you can, 20:45 I told him, do good, save lives, 20:47 go and worship, share the gospel, 20:50 there are a million things that Jesus did on the Sabbath. 20:52 Walk through the grain fields with your friends 20:54 and talk about the kingdom, 20:56 be with the people but give yourself, 20:59 liberate people on the Sabbath of their brokenness, 21:02 whatever it may be with a song or a gift of kindness, 21:05 or a word of encouragement. 21:06 It might be a prayer that you pray on their behalf, 21:08 lift them up and they said, 21:10 but, I don't, I want to know what not to do. 21:14 I have to admit I got kind of frustrated with him. 21:17 On my desk there as we were studying, I gave him my best. 21:22 And I said, Jeremiah, grab that bottle of water 21:24 that's sitting there in front of you, and he picked it up. 21:28 And I said, I want you to tell me. 21:30 I'll tell you exactly what not to do, 21:33 I'll give you the longest list 21:34 that you've ever asked for, a long one. 21:38 He said, if you tell me 21:39 what's not in that bottle of water. 21:42 And he looked at me and I said, 21:44 well go ahead and get started, what's not in there? 21:47 Ketchup, chilli. No, no. 21:50 Bread, is there you know, is there lettuce in water. 21:57 Go ahead, let's just start making a list. 21:59 And he threw his head back, 22:00 he says that would take forever. 22:03 I said, I think that's what Jesus was getting at. 22:06 There are a million things that you can focus on 22:09 about what not to do on the Sabbath, 22:11 that's not why he, he gave you the Sabbath to avoid things. 22:15 The Sabbath in Mark 2 verse 26, 27 says, 22:20 "The Sabbath is a gift for you." Amen. 22:24 So remember who you are, where you come from. 22:28 You're not made to keep this, that's not why I created you. 22:32 The Sabbath came after I made you, 22:34 it's the present, it's your birthday cake. 22:37 This is the thing that you embrace and experience 22:41 so that you never ever, never forget who you are, 22:47 who you belong to and where you're going. 22:50 And--How did he respond? 22:53 Well, it took a while but he started to get it. 22:57 And I have to admit later I just, as I talked with him, 23:01 I baptized Jeremiah and he's a full on believer in Christ. 23:05 But one of the things that he's doing 23:07 and he's gonna have to do. 23:08 And he's gonna have to answer the question. 23:11 So how should I live this day out? 23:16 How should I be and who should I be about on this day? 23:20 One of the things that Christ would tell us 23:23 I'm just by his example in scripture. 23:27 Is to be about doing good 23:30 Be about giving what Jesus 23:34 calls a cup of cool water to someone. 23:36 You want to experience rest, 23:38 release people from their bondage. 23:41 We get, we get thrown into bondage lots of ways, 23:44 there are people who are just fully depressed 23:47 and they're out there, 23:48 many of them are gonna be watching 23:50 and they need to know that there's freedom. Amen. 23:54 There is a rest, 23:56 there is a rest from your loneliness because if, 23:58 if you're alone you'll be kept up awake all the time. 24:03 And it eats away and pulls at you. 24:06 There's a rest from your loneliness, 24:08 there is a God who remembers you, 24:10 who knows you, who wants to abide with you. 24:13 And if you get so busy during the course of the week, 24:16 He is giving you a day to stop and have a piece of cake. 24:22 Have a birthday, remember who you belong to. 24:26 And there are people who are just going through 24:28 unthinkable tragedy and uncertainty. 24:32 They don't know where the, 24:34 the next check is gonna come from. 24:35 They don't know how they're gonna keep the lights on. 24:38 There are people around the world that don't know 24:40 where their next meal is coming from. 24:43 They're worried about family and friends. 24:46 They are many out there today who just worry 24:51 about all of their lost friends and family. 24:56 And there's so much uncertainty, 24:57 they need the rest, we all do. 25:02 And there are those people 25:03 who are just working day and night, 25:05 whether it be for the gospel or for their own cause. 25:08 And that was one of the reasons 25:09 why I think God gave us the Sabbath, 25:12 it's because He made us to be workers. 25:14 And the whole idea of work came before sin too, 25:17 you know, work this earth, you gotta struggle with, 25:20 you're gonna, you're gonna plant and it's gonna grow, 25:22 then you have to work it out, you're gonna be tired, 25:25 He made us that way. 25:28 But the one thing I think God must have been afraid of 25:32 is that one day, if we forget who we are, 25:36 we'll define ourselves by what we do? 25:40 And there is nothing better than 25:41 going to a birthday party because it's always fun. 25:44 And if we could have a birthday party once a week, 25:47 if we can truly get that concept down 25:50 that we're with our brothers and our sisters, 25:52 we're with our favorite people. Yeah. 25:54 And we're getting to share something special. 25:57 And there is this celebration of who you are. 26:01 And there is no narratorial thing 26:03 going on in a birthday party, 26:04 we don't standup and list off the achievements 26:09 of our six-year-old daughter. 26:11 You did this and you did that, 26:12 what do we remember at the birthday? 26:16 Remember, we think about them or we'll bring out pictures. 26:20 And when we fold our hands and we pray 26:23 whether is cake in presence and food and friends 26:25 and hats and candles and all kinds of things. 26:28 We stop and we pray the prayer. 26:31 God, thank you that Susan was born. Amen. 26:36 That we received this gift from you, this gift of life. 26:41 And that's what we pray for. Amen. 26:44 And that's what we pray about, think about that, you know, 26:47 we don't go down the badges and the trophies, 26:49 the accomplishments, you were born. 26:52 The same is true for God's people, 26:53 we're born of God in His image, created after Him, 26:59 intended for a purpose. 27:01 Go in a direction, we got off track, 27:03 Sabbath is meant to keep us back on track 27:06 to who we were and who we-- 27:08 where we belong and where we're going. 27:10 And I would just invite people today to answer that question. 27:16 Is it not for you, does Jesus not say to you today, 27:21 you were made for something greater. 27:24 Don't you want to be set free? 27:26 Don't you want to have that Sabbath rest? 27:28 Amen, amen, well, as you can see, 27:33 we're running out of time again. 27:36 This is such a wonderful, such a wonderful topic 27:40 because we all need that rest and yes, 27:43 indeed, we're all running so fast. 27:46 But I just want to thank you for being here today, 27:49 'cause this is just, 27:50 you've got a good grasp of this. Thank you. 27:52 And I know that if I had been a youth, 27:54 I would love to had a youth pastor like you. 27:57 Thank you, that's kind. 27:59 I just want to thank each one of you 28:01 for being with us today on "Issues and Answers." 28:04 You know how special you are to us here at 3ABN. 28:06 We love each and every one of you 28:08 and we wish you only the best. |
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