>>Bill: When the first
missionaries came to Alberta,
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Canada, they were savagely
opposed by a young chief of the
Cree Indians named Maskepetoon.
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But he responded to the
gospel and accepted Christ.
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Shortly afterward, a member of
the Blackfoot tribe killed his
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father. Maskepetoon rode into
the village where the murderer
lived and demanded that he
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be brought before him.
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Confronting the guilty man,
he said, "You have killed my
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father, so now
you must be my father.
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You shall ride my best
horse and wear my best clothes."
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In utter amazement and remorse
his enemy exclaimed, "My son,
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now you have killed me!"
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He meant, of course, that the
hate in his own heart had been
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completely erased by the
forgiveness and kindness of the
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Indian chief. ANNOUNCER:
It has stood the test of time.
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God's book: the Bible,
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still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
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sharing the messages
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>>Bill: Let's go back to
Matthew 10 and with that as a
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background, remind ourselves of
the uniqueness of these twelve
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men. Twelve men who literally
turned the world upside down.
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Not only were they heroes
because of their courage, their
devotion, and their
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obedience but because
they accomplished their goal.
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They literally
established the church.
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They touched a whole world.
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They extended the Kingdom,
just these twelve, one of them
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unfaithful, eleven faithful,
humble, simple people just like
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us. Listen, what kind
of people does God use?
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He uses the
common kind like we are.
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He uses the unqualified.
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Remember last time?
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God is in the business of
accepting unqualified people
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because nobody's qualified.
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The Lord uses strong, bold
leaders like Peter who take
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charge, initiate plans,
strategize, confront, command
people and who make big, big
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blunders.
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And He uses humble, gentle,
inconspicuous souls like Andrew
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who seek no prominence but
quietly bring people to Christ.
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And He uses zealous, passionate,
uncompromising task-oriented,
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insensitive,
ambitious men like James.
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As well as sensitive,
tender, loving people oriented,
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believing, intimate
truth seekers like John.
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And He uses skeptical,
analytical, mechanical, slow-
witted, weak-faith,
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visionless, pessimistic,
insecure men like Philip.
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And He uses seekers of truth,
honest, open, clear-minded,
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meditative, deeply surrendered
men like Nathanael Bartholomew
who are full of faith and
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understanding and yet who are
flawed by serious sin such as
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prejudice. Now, we're going to
meet two others that He uses
this morning; Matthew and
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Thomas.
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Let's take Matthew first.
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Nothing is ever said about
Matthew and nothing is ever said
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by Matthew except one tiny
little thing in Matthew 9:9 and
that is the extent of
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everything we
know about Matthew.
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(Matthew 9:9)
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When Matthew puts his name in
the list in chapter 10 verse 3
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he says: "Matthew
the tax collector.
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" And may I hasten to add that
no other disciple in the list is
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ever associated with his job.
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Why does Matthew say -
Matthew the tax collector?
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That's not
something you're proud of.
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A tax collector was the
most hated, despised, despicable
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human being in
the society of Israel.
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And Matthew is showing us his
genuine humility and sense of
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sinful unworthiness.
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Matthew was a traitor.
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Matthew was an extortionist.
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Matthew was a
robber and a thief.
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Matthew was greedy.
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Matthew was a
social pariah, or outcast.
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And he knew it.
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You see, to be a tax
collector is to be a publican.
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And what that meant was you
as a Jew were used by the Roman
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government to collect taxes
from the Jews to give to Rome.
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You then sort of
worked for the oppressor.
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You were a traitor first class.
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And not only that, but you
bought the right to collect
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taxes, so you paid the
government, you bought into the
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system. And then the government
would stipulate a certain amount
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of tax that had to be collected,
and that was given to Rome.
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And then you were free to
collect anything more you could
from the people and
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that you kept for yourself.
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And so there were bribes and
extortionist roots taken, abuses
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beyond what we could even dream.
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Something interesting, in the
gospel of Matthew there are more
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quotes of the Old Testament than
in Mark, Luke and John combined.
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So, Matthew knew
the Old Testament.
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Matthew knew the law of
God in the Old Testament.
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And yet we have no idea of
him at all being interested in
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spiritual things.
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But when Jesus comes along,
verse 9, He says to him - Follow
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Me and he arose and
followed Him, instantly.
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Now what is involved in this?
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First of all, he just
walked away from his career.
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I mean, it wasn't like the
earlier guys who were fishermen.
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If they didn't like what went
on with Jesus there were always
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fish. Right?
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And there were always nets.
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And there were always boats.
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And they could go back.
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And in fact, they did in John
21, they all went back fishing.
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And the Lord showed them
they couldn't catch anything.
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But when Matthew walked away
from that table, believe me the
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Roman government would have
somebody there the next day.
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And somebody was in line to buy
into that and he was cutting off
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his career for good.
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No lingering.
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Also, he was identifying
with somebody who was equally
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rejected by the establishment..,
for the Pharisees and the
scribes hated Jesus as much or
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more as they
hated him as a publican.
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So he was really going from
the frying pan into the fire.
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It's a high price he paid.
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You say - Well,
why did he do that?
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Well, I'll tell
you why he did it.
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There is only one reason.
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This little section in chapter
9, the thread that keeps weaving
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its way through here
is the forgiveness of sin.
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In verse 10 Matthew calls a
feast after Jesus calls him.
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And he gets together
tax collectors and sinners.
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And Jesus is the
guest of honor at the feast.
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(Matthew 9:10) "While Jesus
was having dinner at Matthew's
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house, many tax collectors and
'sinners' came and ate with him
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and his disciples. " And the
Pharisees say - Well, why does
He hang around with tax
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collectors and sinners?
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And Jesus says, "They that are
well need not a physician but
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they that are sick.
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" I am come not to call
the righteous but sinners to
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repentance. The point of the
banquet then was for Jesus to
call sinners to repentance.
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So the whole thread here is
confession of sin, repentance
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and forgiveness and Matthew
plops himself in there because I
think that's the issue with him.
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Nobody in the world knew better
his sin than Matthew knew.
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He knew he was a sinner.
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He knew his graft, his
abuse, his extortion, his greed.
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He knew that he had
betrayed his people.
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He knew that he
could be bought for money.
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He knew that.
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And I believe he despised it.
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I believe he wanted out.
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And I believe when Jesus came
to him and said - Follow Me - he
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knew that inherent in that was
the forgiveness of sin and he
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ran to get that. And he was
willing to say goodbye to his
career and everything else
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because he wanted forgiveness.
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What kind of
people does God use?
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Stained glass saints?
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No.
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Vile, wretched, rotten sinners,
the most despicable people in
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society who are
willing to be forgiven.
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You say - Yeah, but He
can't use them for much.
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Oh?
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How about writing the
gospel that introduces the New
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Testament? You see, God is
in the restoration business.
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He takes the
unqualified and transforms them.
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That's His business.
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And I believe Matthew risked a
lot more than the fishermen did
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because he could never go back.
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And he was a vile sinner.
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What if Jesus
couldn't forgive him?
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There he would be stuck with the
same sin and no job to go back
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to. But he quietly forsook all.
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And the genuineness of his
repentance, I believe, is found
in the fact that you
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see his humility.
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He is utterly humble.
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He has nothing to
say about himself.
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He has nothing to say about his
talent and what he has to offer
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the Lord. The only thing he
wants to say is Jesus forgives
sin and one of the ones He
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forgave was a man named Matthew
who was really a sinner and
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whose only friends were a lot
of other sinners, tax collectors
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and sinners. And so we
learn about his humility.
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I think we learn another thing.
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He had a heart for the lost.
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There are some people in this
world who just kind of gravitate
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to the down and
outers, you know?
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That must have been Matthew.
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I mean, if ever there was a
discussion about whether the
disciples ought to get
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involved with some riffraff, I'm
sure Matthew would have led the
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parade toward the
riffraff, having been one.
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I'm glad that when the Lord puts
together a team of men What a
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man. A criminal, an outcast, the
most hated of men, he was
utterly convinced of
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his sin and when given an
opportunity to believe, he
believed and he followed.
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He became a man of quiet
humility who loved the outcasts,
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who gave no place to the
religious establishment, a man
of great faith, a man of
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total and utter surrender to the
Lordship of Jesus Christ and a
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man who knew the Old Testament
and a man that God used to write
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the gospel. That brings us to
the second name we will look at
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today, Thomas. And immediately
when I say Thomas what is the
first word you think of?
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Doubt!
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Thomas has gotten bad press.
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Thomas is a better
man than you think.
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In fact, I'm convinced that most
people really don't understand
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Thomas. We just
say Thomas the doubter.
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I think you're going to learn
some things about Thomas you
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didn't know in
the next few minutes.
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Listen.
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Matthew, Mark and Luke
give us nothing about Thomas.
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But John again, always digging
into the heart of people, opens
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Thomas up to us.
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John chapter 11, we look
at three very brief texts.
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Jesus is up by the Jordan river
and the Lord is out of the city
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of Jerusalem, the pressure has
been tremendous, the plot to
take His life has been
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hatched.
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He and the disciples
are up by the Jordan.
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The report comes to
them that Lazarus is sick.
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That is significant because
Jesus loves Lazarus in a very
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special way.
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Jesus has tarried to give
sufficient time for Lazarus to
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die and then says
this: "Lazarus is dead.
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And I am glad.
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" Now wait a
minute, why are You glad?
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"For your sakes, I'm glad I
wasn't there, for the reason
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that you may believe.
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" And so He says he's dead and
I'm glad for your sakes that I
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wasn't there because now you're
going to see something that will
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make you believe. Then in
verse 15 "Let us go unto him.
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" Let's go.
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Now where was Lazarus?
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Bethany.
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Where's Bethany?
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Two miles east of Jerusalem.
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Now that is a scary announcement
because all the disciples can
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think about is - Oh, this
is suicide, this is absolute
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suicide. We can't
go back to Jerusalem.
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Thomas apparently moves into
this situation with some
leadership, in verse
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16 (John 11:16)
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Now, I see
several things in that.
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First of all I see a
certain amount of initiative.
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He rises to the top and says
- Wait a minute, guys, let's go
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with Him and die with Him.
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I also see pessimism.
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Now he was convinced
Jesus was going to be killed.
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And if they went they would
die You know, some will say, the
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greatest courage in the world is
not the courage of an optimist.
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An optimist has courage.
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He has courage because he
believes the best will happen.
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The greatest courage in the
world is the courage of a
pessimist because he
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knows the worse is going
to happen and is willing to go
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anyway. You see?
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Thomas says -
We'll die, so let's go.
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That's a lot of courage.
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Now, why does
he want to do this?
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If you think of him only as a
doubter then this doesn't make
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any sense. Why was he
willing to go die with Jesus?
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Not because he doubted Him, but
because he so totally believed
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Him. If Jesus is going to
die, then let's go die with Him,
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because the alternative
is to be without Him.
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A man of courage
and a man of love.
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He did not want to be
separated from Christ.
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He could never be
disloyal to Jesus.
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He could die for Him
before he'd be disloyal.
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That's how deep his love.
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Go to John chapter
14 and we see him again.
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And the same
attitudes come out again.
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Jesus gives this little message
about letting not your heart be
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troubled and believing in God
and He's going to prepare a
place for you, and I'll come
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again and receive you unto
Myself and where I am there you
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may be also. He says - You know
where I am going and you know
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how to get there. Verse 5:
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This is the same heart that's
saying - Lord, don't You go
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somewhere where we can't come.
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The thought of separation
was the issue with Thomas.
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I don't like what I hear, You'
re going to go and we're not
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going to know where You
are or how to get there.
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His heart, I think, is
nearly broken as he speaks.
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And he's a pessimistic and
he says - We'll never find the
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place. Jesus tells him,
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What He's saying is -
Thomas, I'll take you there.
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I'm the way, you
don't have to fear.
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I'm not going to go
someplace and leave you.
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You see the same
pessimism again, don't you?
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And you see the same love again.
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Let's go to a third and
last look at Thomas John 20.
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Jesus died.
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You know what happened
to Thomas when Jesus died?
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He said, I knew it.
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He died and I didn't die and He
went somewhere and I don't know
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where He is. I knew it.
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And all of his fears came true
all of the worst things that he
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had ever thought.
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He felt betrayed.
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He felt rejected.
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He felt forsaken.
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And it was out of
love that he was shattered.
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He was like a wounded animal.
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And he didn't want to be around
people so he just split, that's
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what he did. And when all the
rest of the disciples came
together he just wasn't
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there, he was out and he was
depressed because he loved so
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deeply. He would have died with
Jesus but Jesus died without
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him. He wanted to go with Jesus
but Jesus went without him.
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And now his pessimism is
vindicated, and he's really in
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the pits. John 20:24
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We've seen the Lord,
Thomas, and you weren't there.
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You didn't show up.
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But Thomas is depressed.
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Did you ever try to talk
to somebody who is depressed?
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Really difficult isn't it?
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He says, Unless I see the nail
marks in his hands and put my
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finger where the nails were, and
put my hand into his side, I
will not believe it.
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Now he's a
pessimist, I've got to see it.
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But before you pounce on him
with both feet, would you kindly
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remember this? That none of the
disciples believed until they
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saw Jesus. I mean, after all, it
is not that easy to believe that
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somebody rose from the dead.
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On the road to Emmaus in Luke
24, two are walking along and
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the Lord is with them and
they're moaning and groaning
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about His death. And
they don't believe either.
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Nobody believed
till they saw Him.
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So don't make
Thomas the doubter.
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You see, he's a loving
pessimist is what he is.
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That's better
than being a doubter.
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I want to see
before I believe, he says.
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John 20:26
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It seems a fitting greeting,
doesn't it, to the chaos that
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must have occurred.
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And then He zeros in on this
dear soul that loves Him enough
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to die with Him and is
utterly depressed and shattered.
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He said to Thomas, "Thomas,
reach here your finger, behold
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My hands, and reach here your
hand and thrust it into My side
and be not faithless but
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believing.
00:20:02.26\00:20:03.53
" Did Thomas do that?
00:20:03.53\00:20:06.26
It doesn't say he did it.
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It just says immediately,
without doing anything, "He
answered and said unto
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Him, My Lord and my God.
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" The greatest single
confessional ever made.
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He affirmed the
deity of Jesus Christ.
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He affirmed the
Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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He affirmed that He was God.
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Thomas - yes he was melancholy,
he was moody, pessimistic,
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comfortless, shattered, but when
he saw the Lord Jesus Christ, he
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gave the greatest
testimony ever given.
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And you know what?
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In that one little statement
Thomas gave the speech that
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literally destroys every lie
that has been told about Jesus
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not being God. Thomas -
tradition tells us he went as
far as India preaching.
00:20:49.93\00:20:56.03
And one tradition says that
he died in a very special way.
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They took a spear and
rammed it through him.
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Because of his faith in Christ,
it would be kind of fitting
00:21:03.80\00:21:09.10
climax for one who was told to
reach forth his hand and feel
the spear mark in his own
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Lord.
00:21:12.43\00:21:14.13
What kind of
people does God use?
00:21:14.13\00:21:16.36
Vile sinners like Matthew.
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Tender-hearted, moody,
melancholy pessimists like
00:21:19.46\00:21:25.13
Thomas. You name it, they're all
unique and He can use you too.
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>>Bev: Hi, everyone.
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If you're not using quinoa on
a regular basis, you are missing
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out on the significant
nutritional benefits this super
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food has to offer. For one
thing, it's a complete protein,
which means it contains all of
00:24:05.06\00:24:08.53
the essential amino acids
that our bodies cannot create.
00:24:08.53\00:24:12.13
That's unusual for a plant food.
00:24:12.13\00:24:14.60
Quinoa was used by the Inca
civilization as a staple food in
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their daily diet,
and with good reason.
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It boasts more protein than
rice, millet, or wheat, and it's
00:24:21.63\00:24:25.10
gluten-free with a healthy
complement of minerals such as
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manganese,
magnesium, iron, and copper.
00:24:28.60\00:24:32.26
Today, I'm sharing my own
recipe, Bev's Quinoa Salad with
Tahini Lime Dressing.
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Here are the ingredients: one
cup of cooked quinoa; one
carrot, grated; half a
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cup of shredded kale; a quarter
cup of currants; a quarter cup
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of pumpkin seeds; and you can
put a quarter teaspoon of salt.
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That's optional.
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I usually don't.
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This is a
high-octane kind of salad.
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You're going to get great
nutrition from the quinoa, the
carrot, the kale, and
00:24:55.60\00:24:58.23
the pumpkin seeds.
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And the currants add a nice
little hint of tart sweetness.
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And then for the dressing, I
just use the juice of a lime,
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two teaspoons of tahini, a
teaspoon of almond butter, water
to thin it out, and a half
00:25:09.20\00:25:13.40
teaspoon of sweetener, and
a little sprinkling of chili
00:25:13.40\00:25:18.76
pepper seeds and a few dashes
maybe of Herbamare or some other
00:25:18.76\00:25:22.50
kind of spices. You mix the
salad ingredients together, then
mix the dressing, and pour
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it over.
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So let me show you.
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I've got the quinoa right here.
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I'm going to add in
some shredded carrots.
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m going to add in
the wonderful kale.
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And this has wonderful
colour to it, this whole salad.
00:25:35.00\00:25:38.63
And then I've already got the
currants and the pumpkin seeds
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mixed. That's
all you've got to do.
00:25:41.50\00:25:45.33
Those ingredients, and then
you'd just pour the dressing on
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top of it, mix it together, and
you've got a spectacular,
good-for-you kind of
00:25:49.93\00:25:56.10
salad.
00:25:56.10\00:25:57.86
And let me show
you how gorgeous it is.
00:25:57.86\00:26:01.76
The beautiful colours.
00:26:01.76\00:26:04.00
And it's so fresh.
00:26:04.00\00:26:06.66
Much of the ingredients is raw.
00:26:06.66\00:26:08.53
There you go.
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Beautiful salad.
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Enjoy it in good health
and I'll see you next time.
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>>Allen: What kind
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Any kind.
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All we have to do is
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That means there is
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