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>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining
me, in Zimbabwe, Africa.
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And today you're
not only joining me,
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but the presenters from It Is
Written Canada, Chris Holland,
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and It Is Written
Oceania, Gary Kent.
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Gentlemen, thanks
for joining me today.
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>>Chris Holland:
Glad to be here, John.
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>>Gary Kent:
Pleasure to be here.
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>>John: I think this is the
first time we've done anything
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quite like this.
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>>Chris: I think it is.
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>>John: So, so
thanks for making a little
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It Is Written history today.
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>>Chris: Yes.
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>>John: Now, we're
here for a purpose.
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We want to open up the
Bible together and, uh,
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discuss one of the
great chapters of the Bible.
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Now, before we do that, the
reason that we're in Zimbabwe
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and not the United
States or Australia or Canada
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is because we've been
here conducting Bible meetings
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in the city of Gweru.
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It's been a blessing, hasn't it?
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>>Chris: It has been
a tremendous blessing.
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>>Gary: What a privilege.
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>>John: Yeah,
fantastic. But while we're here,
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we'll open up the Bible
and we'll discuss a subject
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that I think's going
to be a real blessing.
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>>Chris: That sounds great.
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>>John: Great
chapters of the Bible.
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Let's start with
Matthew, chapter 5,
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where we find the Beatitudes.
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Matthew, chapter 5 and verse 7.
How about reading that for us?
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>>Gary: Blessed
are the merciful,
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for they will be shown mercy.
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>>John: Okay. How do we apply
that to contemporary life today?
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>>Gary: It's, it's,
it's interesting, John,
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because here we are reminded
of the reaping and sowing,
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or sowing and reaping concept,
that, uh, Jesus speaks about.
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We're also reminded here
that those who show mercy
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will receive mercy.
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And I think that the, the,
this is also true that those
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who know mercy will show mercy.
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Those who've experienced
forgiveness, mercy, compassion
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in their life will be those
who will share that with others.
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>>John: Now, what we
see here is that mercy
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is, is obviously highly
prized in the eyes of Jesus.
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But mercy, or being merciful, is
a characteristic of God Himself.
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The Lord God,
merciful and gracious.
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So in the
beatitudes Jesus is saying,
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“Here's how to live,”
saying, “Here's how to be.”
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I think what he's
saying is not go do this,
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but this is what will
happen when the presence
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of the Holy
Spirit is in your life.
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God's plan is to
remake us in His image.
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And He says, this is
a big one “be merciful.”
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You touched on forgiveness.
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Chris, talk about
forgiveness for a little bit.
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>>Chris: Well, you
know, it's interesting.
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Forgiveness,
mercy, this, these are
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just like we're talking about,
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you know, big
chapters of the Bible.
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Mercy is a central
theme of the Bible,
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where God gives to us
that which we do not deserve.
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And in the
context of forgiveness,
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when we talk about forgiveness,
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forgiveness means
we're giving up our right,
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so to speak, to retaliate.
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And so the bible is quite clear,
the wages of sin is death.
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And so from a practical
standpoint, we are deserving,
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or the reward we've earned,
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because we have all fallen
short of the glory of God,
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we've all sinned, is death.
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But God in His mercy,
according to Romans 5,
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sent His Son while
we were yet sinners,
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so He would die for us.
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God paid the penalty for us,
giving us not what we deserve,
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but rather, giving us
what He desires in our life.
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>>John: We're
looking in Matthew 5,
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and over in Matthew, chapter
6, Jesus was really clear.
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He said, “If you don't forgive
others, God won't forgive you.”
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>>Gary: Yes
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Now, that's, that's time
to sit up and take notice.
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This is, this is
real Christianity.
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This comes down to, why, this,
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this rubs my fur the wrong way.
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I want to retaliate.
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I want to strike back.
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God is talking
about mercy and saying,
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“No, no, show mercy, show grace
to those who don't deserve it.”
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There's a story that deals with
this in Matthew, chapter 18.
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And this is where Jesus
said: The Kingdom of heaven,
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is likened unto a certain king
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who would take
account of his servants.
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You remember, there's
this fellow who owed the king
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an, a gargantuan
sum, 10,000 talents.
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It's a ludicrous
debt that he has.
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And he can't, he can't pay it,
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but he falls down
and worships the man,
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and he says: "Lord, have
patience and I will pay it".
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The man was
moved with compassion.
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And he loosed him,
and forgave him the debt.
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A gargantuan debt.
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>>Gary: Yes.
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>>John: And then the
same servant went out,
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found one of his fellow servants
that owed him a hundred pence.
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Comparatively just nothing.
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And he forced him to pay it.
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The man said, “I cannot.”
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He cast him into
prison until he paid the debt.
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Jesus was not
impressed, as you might expect.
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Now, now we've tied
mercy to forgiveness.
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I don't think that's wrong.
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I think that's accurate.
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But are there other
ways to talk about mercy?
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How do we show
mercy on a daily basis.
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Okay, somebody backs into
your car in the parking lot,
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and what are you supposed to do?
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Hey, it's okay,
I'll have mercy on you.
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You could, right? You could.
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>>Chris: Yeah, you know,
you could have mercy by saying,
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“Hey, this is
okay.” And, and you know,
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we have to understand that,
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that sometimes you need to take
the rightful course with things,
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and exchange insurance.
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But if somebody backs into your
car and leaves a minor scratch,
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do we really need
to involve all that?
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Can we just say,
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“You know what? Hey, accidents
happen. It's not a big deal.”
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And so I think we can
exercise mercy on a daily basis.
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Let's bring it
very close to home.
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Our spouse says
something unkind to us.
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Do we kind of put
that in our back pocket,
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to be used in a
later confrontation,
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or do we exercise mercy and say,
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“You know what? I'm
gonna just leave that behind.”
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>>John: Yeah, it's, it's,
we look at God and we say,
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“How did God treat people?”
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The Lord is
merciful and gracious,
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slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy.
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The concept is repeated in
that one verse in the Psalms.
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So it's important to God;
ought to be important to us.
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This is a character,
characteristic of God.
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This is a characteristic
of God that God wants to see
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demonstrated in our lives.
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Sometimes you just got
to swallow and move on,
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or, or be big, and not make a
big deal out of something small,
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and let it go.
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>>Gary: I think it's a,
it's a, a personality trait,
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a characteristic
that is developed.
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And as we understand the
mercy we have been shown,
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as told in that parable,
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we are really
under an obligation
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to demonstrate a
similar mercy to those
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we come in contact
with in everyday life.
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Uh, if we've known
mercy, we should show mercy.
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>>John: So where
do we find mercy?
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If you want to know
mercy, you go to the Bible.
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You read the word of God.
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You say, this is
how God treated people.
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This is how
Jesus treated people.
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There was a lady
caught in the midst of sin,
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dragged to the feet of Jesus.
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They caught her in the act.
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They, they set her up, really.
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It was, it was a test to
see how Jesus would handle her.
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She was as, as guilty as sin.
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And Jesus said,
“I don't condemn you.
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Go and sin no more.”
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Man, we can be quick to
condemn, can't we, people?
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>>Chris: You know,
and it's interesting,
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in that story we
often talk about the woman.
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But there's another group that
Jesus shows extreme mercy to,
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and that is the
Pharisees that bring her,
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the religious
leaders that bring her.
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You'll remember, he
ends writing in the sand.
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And, and we can conclude that he
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was writing
their sins in the sand.
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And I, I emphasize that
word, sand, over and over again.
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Because Jesus did not
write their sins in stone.
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He wrote them in sand.
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The assumption is later
the wind would blow that away,
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and he exercised mercy because
he was trying to reach them.
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And ultimately, when
Jesus was hanging on the cross,
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he shows that mercy and
that forgiveness by saying,
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“Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do.”
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>>John: Think of what Jesus did.
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Judas.
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Man, he
suffered long with Judas.
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He could have
tossed him out long ago.
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God could have, could
have scrunched up the planet
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and tossed us in the
universe's wastepaper basket
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right back at the beginning.
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Instead, he said, “No, my love
for the human family is so great
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that my Son will come and
die so that they might live.”
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This is just a
huge concept, isn't it?
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>>Chris: Absolutely.
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>>John: And so God says to us:
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Blessed are the merciful:
and they shall obtain mercy.
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It's a Bible truth
and it's a, frankly,
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a challenge to
most, if not all of us.
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With Gary Kent from
It Is Written Oceania
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and Chris Holland
from It Is Written Canada,
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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We'll be back with more
on one of the great chapters
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>>John: This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw
in Gweru, Zimbabwe,
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with Gary Kent of
It Is Written Oceania
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and Chris Holland of
It Is Written Canada.
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Together, we're taking on one of
the great chapters of the Bible
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at least a part of it.
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We're looking at the Beatitudes.
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And it seems to me, gentlemen,
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that we are down to
Matthew, chapter 5, verse 8,
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Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God. Chris?
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>>Chris: You know,
“blessed are the pure in heart,”
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this is a very
interesting thing,
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because Jesus here is clearly
not talking about somebody
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having a clean
heart with clean arteries,
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but he's getting to this, this
concept of the heart being the,
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the inner man, the very
essence of who someone is,
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the very character.
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And as you said earlier,
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Jesus isn't saying this in
a sort of works-oriented way,
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but, rather, this is
what someone looks like
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who has received the
grace and mercy of God,
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and the Holy Spirit is
actively transforming them
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into the likeness of Christ.
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>>John: Today, purity is not
a virtue that too many people
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hold up as being
particularly important.
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And we could run through
the list of things in society
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today to, to suggest that what
we might call traditional values
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basically gone out the window.
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To be morally pure
in this modern age,
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um, how do I say this, seems to
me might be a greater challenge
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than years gone by.
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Although if somebody
wanted to be morally impure,
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there's certainly many
avenues for that, then.
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But today, um,
lax moral standards,
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impurity, it's just everywhere.
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What do you do to
protect yourself against this,
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this avalanche of
impurity in the world today?
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Gary, what do you,
what does a person do?
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>>Gary: Well, you're right,
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Jesus is getting to the
real heart of the matter here.
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Our, our thoughts, the seats of
who we are, what what drives us,
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how do we build a,a
wall, a fortress against this,
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this flood that you've,
you've been referring to?
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I think it comes back to our
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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And, uh, that's,
that's where it's centered.
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And we've got to
spend time with the Lord,
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and we've got to build
up a, a strong relationship,
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which is our only defense, a
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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We've got to be covered by Him,
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we've got to be
dependent upon Him.
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>>John: We've got
to be careful about
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what we're
putting into our mind.
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That, that's really important.
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Think about that.
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And then, what do you
do when temptation comes?
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Because it's going to come.
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And you can do nothing
and get swept away by it.
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You can fight it
in your own strength,
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and you'll get swept away by it.
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Or you can call
on Jesus and say,
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“Here's a
temptation bigger than me.
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I need your help.”
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And that's that
moment-by-moment dying to self
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that's living by faith,
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living by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
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That's a constant connection
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and a turning to Jesus
in times of temptation.
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But surely when
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he's talking
about purity in heart,
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he's not just
talking about moral purity,
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but you can go deeper.
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Motives, intents,
how you treat people,
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what you think when
somebody crosses you, right?
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These sorts of things.
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>>Chris: And I was
going to say, you know,
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it's very interesting
that the promise there is,
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is “blessed are the pure in
heart, for they will see God.”
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The very original
sin, from the devil to Eve,
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is partake of this fruit
which you've been instructed
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not to partake of, and
your eyes will be opened.
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And, in fact, what
that actually did is it
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prevented Adam and Eve
from any longer enjoying
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fellowship with
God face to face.
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So sin actually
does the very reverse
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of opening our eyes to see God.
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It closes our
eyes from seeing God,
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and so, as Gary was stating,
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it is so vital to
spend time in the Word.
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You know, there's
the verse that says,
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“Resist the devil
and he will flee you.”
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How do we resist the devil?
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By, by every word.
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By studying God's word.
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By filling, you know, there
are some religions in the world
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that talk about
emptying yourself.
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>>John: Mmm, that's right.
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>>Chris: But the biblical
reality is that we need to not
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empty ourself but, rather, we
need to fill ourselves so full
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of the Word of God that
nothing else can come in,
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and that will lead
to this purity in heart,
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that we might commune with God.
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>>John: Gary, you
had a thought on this.
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>>Gary: We we've been discussing
the practical side of this,
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the importance of
resisting temptation
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and finding the right way
to do that, the biblical way.
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And you've
mentioned that well, Chris.
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I believe that there's
also a spiritual side to this.
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As we are
forgiven, we are cleansed.
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We are purified through Jesus.
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And it is when we are
covered with his righteousness
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that we will see God.
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>>John: Mmm, beautiful thought.
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Yeah, appreciate that.
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Okay, let's look at the
next, the next beatitude,
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the next blessing.
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Blessed are the peacemakers:
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for they shall be
called the children of God.
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The peacemakers.
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Who are the peacemakers today?
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>>Gary: Well, if ever there was
a time that we need peacemakers,
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it's now.
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And who is it
that can bring peace,
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not just to our
personal troubled hearts,
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but to our world?
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It's the Prince of Peace, Jesus.
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>>John: Jesus is the
Prince of Peace, that's right.
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Now, now, there's a,
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there's a great lack
of peace in the world.
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Talking globally, in
communities, country to country.
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Just in our own lives, right?
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Conflict everywhere.
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And it seems, it seems,
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maybe I'm just going after
the low-hanging fruit here,
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but it seems that, that people
have a much lower threshold.
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You know, we talk
about road rage today.
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That's really real.
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People are very ugly and
angry online, on the Internet.
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Uh, day to day, daily lives,
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man, there's just
a lot of conflict.
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Conflict at home.
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And you talked earlier,
Chris, about storing things up,
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maybe for a later
conversation with your spouse,
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because that person crossed you.
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Just better to let it go, right?
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>>Chris: Yeah, and it's,
and it's an amazing thing,
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because we seem to be
living at a time where peace is,
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as you said, is this
lower and lower standard.
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And I actually believe we're
actually seeing the fulfilment
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of Matthew 24.
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It's a verse we often
overlook when we talk about
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the signs of Jesus' coming,
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but it talks about
“lawlessness will abound.”
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And then it says this:
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and the love of
many will grow cold.
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>>John: Right.
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>>Chris: And so what is
the ultimate peace that can be
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brought into someone's life?
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And that is the
experience of the gospel message
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and true transformation
into being like Jesus,
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which is what the
beatitudes are all about.
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And so the peacemakers are
those that don't just preach
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the gospel but, rather,
they live the gospel of Jesus
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by encountering people,
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and bring this level of
peace espoused in the kingdom
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through personal interaction.
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>>Gary: As we experience peace
in our own lives through Jesus,
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by knowing Jesus and
experiencing the peace
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that comes with the removal
of guilt, sin from our lives,
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we're in a position
then to share that peace.
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And I think that's what Jesus
talks about as he continues
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and talks about his followers
as being the salt of the earth,
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the light, and so forth.
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We are called upon as Christians
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to bring peace to
troublous situations.
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And we can only do
that if we've experienced
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the peace of
Jesus in our own lives.
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>>John: And so part of that
means if you're holding a grudge
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against somebody,
you've got to let it go.
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If you want to
wade into a situation,
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straighten everybody out,
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it's better to just
suck it up and move right on.
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If you want to right all of
the wrongs in everybody's life
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around you, eh, that's
not what God has called us to.
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He's called us to be like Jesus.
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And the beatitudes are promises.
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When Jesus comes into
your life, you'll be like Him.
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>>John: Welcome
back to it Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw, with Gary
Kent from It Is Written Oceania
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and Chris Holland
from It Is Written Canada,
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and we're
discussing the beatitudes.
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And, gentlemen,
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we're down to a very challenging
passage of scripture.
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Let's read through
this one, three verses,
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starting in Matthew,
chapter 5, verse 10, says:
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Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness'
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sake, for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven.
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>>Chris: Verse 11 continues:
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Blessed are you when
they revile and persecute you,
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and say all kinds of evil
against you falsely for My sake.
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>>Gary: And verse 12 continues:
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Rejoice and be glad because
great is your reward in heaven,
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for in the same way
they persecuted the prophets
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who were before you.
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>>John: The Bible's a
challenging book, isn't it?
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And if you really want to think
about this, this is a challenge.
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>>Gary: Well, it deals
with the nitty-gritties of life.
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>>John: It really does.
And look what Jesus said:
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Blessed are they
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which are persecuted
for righteousness' sake
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Now, I think we
need to be careful here.
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Persecuted for
righteousness' sake.
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A lot of people bring
trouble upon themselves
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because they act like fools.
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And they cause
trouble themselves.
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That's, that's not
what Jesus is talking about.
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But how is that?
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So you're persecuted
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and you ought to be
kind of happy about that.
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Think about
persecution in the world today.
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In the western world,
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not a great deal of
religious persecution.
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There's some, though.
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But around the world, there
are people really suffering
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for their faith
in God, aren't there?
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>>Chris: You know,
it's interesting, John.
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When we talk about
this issue of persecution,
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its something that ought,
also need to be careful of
00:22:25.64\00:22:28.48
is the idea that
persecution is a requirement
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for entry into Heaven.
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We've talked about this
with all of the beatitudes,
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that the beatitudes are
not necessarily requirements,
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but, rather, what happens
when a person is coming into
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relationship with Jesus and
being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus says, to your
question of the person
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who is experiencing
real, genuine persecution
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and there are many places
in the world where Christians
00:22:54.87\00:22:57.37
face persecution and
death on a daily basis.
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Jesus says, you can be happy.
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This is not happiness that I ate
a cookie and, oh, I feel good.
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But, rather, this goes to the
point of when we are with Jesus,
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when we are
following the ways of Jesus,
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even when persecution
comes, we can enjoy this,
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this internal
happiness, this internal joy
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that we are in a
relationship with Jesus.
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And even though
we're being persecuted,
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God has an inheritance for us.
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>>John: Yeah, there's
an assurance, isn't there?
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There's an assurance
that we've got to carry
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into every
situation in life, Gary.
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>>Gary: The other
thing of interest as we come
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to the last of the beatitudes,
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the final blessing
here, is that it's present.
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When Jesus talks
about, “Blessed are those who
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are persecuted
because of righteousness,
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for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.”
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Not something in the future,
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but it's something that I
think brings that assurance
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that you've just spoken to.
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Those who are being
persecuted for Christ's sake,
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for righteousness' sake,
can experience the kingdom
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and the blessings of
Heaven in the here and now.
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>>John: Yeah, that's a
significant point, isn't it?
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There are some people battling.
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Uh, friends told me
my father was baptized.
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If he goes back
to his home country
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and practices
Christianity, he will be killed.
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That's pretty significant.
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And when Jesus was talking
about this back in his day,
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persecution, the fires of
persecution were just about
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to start
blazing, you understand.
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>>Chris: Well, I mean, and I
have pastor friends in Canada,
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when they
converted to Christianity,
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the brother was beaten severely
and cast out of the home,
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totally disowned.
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And this is not a
hundred years ago,
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this isn't
fifteen hundred years ago.
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We are talking
in the modern time,
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in the last 20, 30, 40 years.
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And as you pointed out, Gary,
theirs is the kingdom of God,
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which is what the gospel does.
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The gospel is not just a
promise for hope in the future,
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but it gives us hope now that we
can experience the true presence
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of Jesus in our lives every day,
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even when we're persecuted such
as what happens in countries
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where people can be
killed and things like that.
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Or, you convert to Christianity,
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you change your
life, and your friends say,
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“I don't want to be
friends with you anymore.
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I don't like your new ways.”
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>>John: Right.
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>>Chris: That, that, now, that's
a minor persecution compared
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to someone who's going to die.
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>>John: That's tough
to go through, though.
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>>Chris: But it's
still a practical reality
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that people deal with.
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And Jesus says,
you can have peace.
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Oh, and by the
way, you can have joy.
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You can have happiness by
enjoying fellowship with me.
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>>John: Now, we
like to be liked.
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Not too many
people like to be hated.
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And Jesus says you are
“blessed when people revile you,
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persecute you, and say
all manner of evil against you
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falsely for My sake.”
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Who wants to be slandered?
00:25:51.05\00:25:52.95
You know, that's, defamatory.
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We want to get up on our
hind legs and defend ourselves.
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Comes back to the question,
where do you get your assurance?
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Where do you find your comfort?
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Um, where's your
source of inner strength?
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If it seems like the
world is against you,
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you've still got God.
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See, this needs to
become real in our lives,
00:26:10.80\00:26:13.84
this idea that, okay,
they hate me, but I have hope.
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The world's
against me, but it's okay.
00:26:17.14\00:26:19.37
When is it okay?
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It's okay if you know
Jesus in a personal way.
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>>Chris: And you know, John,
00:26:23.08\00:26:23.91
you and I share a
bit of a same story
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in that we were
living outside of that,
00:26:25.88\00:26:28.75
that reality of being in Christ
and having that internal joy
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no matter what
the circumstances.
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>>John: Yeah. So
where do you get it?
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In Christ.
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And if you look
in the beatitudes,
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Jesus is saying,
if you come to me,
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yield your life to me,
00:26:41.26\00:26:42.73
this is what's going to happen.
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And with Christ
living in your heart,
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these
characteristics of, of God,
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God's character will
be demonstrated in you.
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You're going to live a
life that exemplifies joy,
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peace, happiness, uh, the
blessing of God's presence
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in your daily experience.
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Gentlemen,
thanks for being here.
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Really glad we had the
opportunity to do this together.
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It's been a lot of fun.
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>>Chris: Enjoyed it immensely.
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>>Gary: Pleasure
to be here, John.
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>>John: Matthew 5 is one of
the great chapters of the Bible.
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We looked at the beatitudes.
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There's no question that
God wants us to be blessed,
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and he wants to
shower his blessings upon us.
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We've got a lot
to be thankful for.
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Gary, how about you pray for us.
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>>Gary: Let's pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, we
thank you for the privilege
00:28:31.64\00:28:34.41
of being able to
study your word here
00:28:34.44\00:28:37.01
in the heart of southern Africa.
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And we thank you
for the assurance,
00:28:39.38\00:28:41.52
the promises found
in your Word, the Bible,
00:28:41.55\00:28:43.85
particularly here in the
beatitudes that we have studied.
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We thank you for the happiness
that you bring into our lives.
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Bless us now, we pray,
00:28:51.06\00:28:52.99
and be with each one of us,
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we ask in Jesus' name,
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Amen.
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>>John: Amen.
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It's really been good.
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Thanks so much, Gary Kent
from It Is Written Oceania,
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.00
Chris Holland from
It Is Written Canada.
00:29:03.04\00:29:05.37
Let's do this again sometime.
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>>Chris: That sounds great.
00:29:06.71\00:29:07.64
>>Gary: Sounds good.
00:29:07.68\00:29:08.94
>>John: We're looking forward
to seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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but by every word that
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