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>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Our special guest, Paulie
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Rogers, renovated and remodeled
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her family's old Victorian
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farmhouse and that experience
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led to her opening her heart to
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Jesus, remodelling every room
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of her life.
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>> Today, Paulie takes us
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into the most private room in
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our home, the bathroom, a place
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where, in the spiritual sense,
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only God can create a clean
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heart and renew His right spirit
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within us.
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>> Next, we step into the
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dressing room where we can get
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ready and examine ourselves in a
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full-length mirror before we
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leave our homes.
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>> Finally, we will look into
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the last room, a small, dismal,
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and cramped room, the attic.
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This room is tucked away, so we
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don't show it to many people
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because this is the room where
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we store all our personal junk.
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>> In a moment, Paulie will walk
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you through one room after
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another of her old Victorian
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farmhouse with a vision of
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revealing how to experience a
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deeper connection with Christ.
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>> Welcome back to My House
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Renovated One Room
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at a Time series.
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I hope you have been finding
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some valuable treasures so far
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in your spiritual house as we
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have been touring each room with
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Jesus in my old Victorian
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farmhouse.
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We have met Him on the front
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porch and answered His knock at
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the door of our hearts.
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We have invited Him into our
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living room for a good
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communication with Him, getting
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to know Him as a true friend who
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has our best interest at heart.
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His love for us is stronger
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than death.
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It is where we have begun to
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truly live.
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Then we got a taste for the
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beautiful, yummy plans He has
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for us in the kitchen.
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If only we allow Him to take all
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the gooey messes of our life and
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create something beautiful
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according to His goodwill
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for us.
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Now we are in the most private
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of all rooms in the house,
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the bathroom.
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It is a room where we do our
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private business and am I ever
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grateful for it because this old
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Victorian farmhouse that we live
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in did not have plumbing until
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1980, if you can believe it.
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Just five years before we moved
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into it.
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Water is a vital necessity for
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cleanliness, both physically and
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spiritually.
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Without it, we are filthy
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dirty.
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As sinners, Jesus tells us we
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must be born again.
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It is Christ who makes us holy.
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Christ who took my sins upon
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Himself so that I may be saved.
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It is here, in this very private
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room between me and my Saviour,
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that it gets real personal.
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I surrender my all, and Jesus
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takes those confessed sins of
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mine and literally flushes them
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down the toilet
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to be seen no more.
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Our sins are taken from us and
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flushed away, never to be seen
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or remembered again.
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We are forgiven, washed clean.
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Oh, what a joy it is to climb
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into my new large soaker bath
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tub filled with warm, inviting
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water.
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It is here where I am immersed
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in the depths of the spiritual
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grave, dying to my old sinful
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self and arising new in Christ's
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resurrection.
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It was Christmas, and to my
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surprise, a large box was
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brought to me to open.
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As I carefully unwrapped the
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large presents sitting on my
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lap, I eyed the suspicious grin
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on my husband's face because I
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know how hard it is for him to
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go shopping so whatever was in
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this box, I was appreciating it
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already.
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I pushed the tissue paper out of
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the way to reveal a beautiful
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bathrobe.
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"I thought you could use a new
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one," he said.
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And as I lifted it out of the
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box, I hugged it close.
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It was ever so soft and I love
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soft things.
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Soft things make me happy.
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I wear that robe a lot.
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It wraps me up in my
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husband's love.
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I feel cherished and taken care
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of in it.
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As soon as I step out of this
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bathtub, I put that robe on.
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You see, there was a reason
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Kenny said he thought I could
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use a new robe.
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My old one was pretty tattered
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up, faded thin, with a few holes
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in it.
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That's how we are before our
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sins are forgiven.
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We have all become like one who
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is unclean and all our righteous
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deeds are like a polluted
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garment.
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When we try to be good in our
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own strength, we are nothing but
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a faded old dirty rag.
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We are wearing a robe of
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self-righteousness, trying to
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get salvation through our own
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efforts.
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But it's not the right robe.
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Before stepping into the
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spiritual bath, every dirty
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thing about us has been revealed
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and must come off.
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We must bear our souls
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open and naked.
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It's the only way.
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Christ has forgiven us of our
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sins, but now we need to be
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cleansed so we step into the
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water and are baptized.
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It is the act of dying to self
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and being resurrected in Christ
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that gives us His robe of
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righteousness.
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Gone are our sins, flushed down
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the toilet to be seen no more.
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Cleansed by His blood and
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resurrection, I am covered in
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His robe of righteousness.
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I am a new creation.
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Now it's time to go into the
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dressing room to talk about what
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it means to become a reflection
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of Christ's likeness.
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When our son moved out, I moved
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in, into his bedroom, that is.
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I pulled up the old carpet,
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cleaned and sanded the wood
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floorboards, and painted them
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a shiny black.
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I painted the walls white and
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hung clothes racks and a full
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length mirror on the walls.
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It's wonderful to have this
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room, especially when the old
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Victorian farmhouse doesn't have
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much for any closets at all.
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Now I have a whole room
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to dress in.
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You know, this is a very
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important room of our spiritual
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house, too, because once we have
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accepted Jesus Christ into our
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hearts and have made that
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decision to live with Him, we
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become like Him.
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Everything about us is going to
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look like Him.
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But it's much more than looking
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like Him because we can look
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like a Christian on the outside
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and still not be like Him on the
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inside.
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It's about where my heart is.
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That is where our true beauty
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comes from.
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You know, a well-dressed woman
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who is admired for her outward
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beauty, but who is selfish and
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unkind in heart, is not very
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pretty at all.
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In fact, she can be seen as
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quite ugly.
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In this personal relationship
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with Jesus here in our house,
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the place within us where He
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wants to dwell, we will know who
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Jesus is, how He treated others,
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and the lessons He so
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passionately wants us to learn
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and understand.
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In knowing Jesus, there will be
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no selfishness, pride or
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arrogance, criticism or judgment
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of others.
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There will only be beauty and
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grace and elegance.
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So how should I dress then?
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How do I reflect Christ on the
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outside?
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Honestly, whatever draws us to
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God for His glory, instead of my
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glory, is where our hearts focus
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should be.
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We can be prideful in any kind
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of attire we choose to wear.
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The Lord said to Samuel...
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Where is my heart's focus?
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It's about my heart.
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It will not be focused on me and
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my personal appearance because
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if it is, then pridefulness and
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vanity will be at the root of my
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character.
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But with eyes focused on Jesus
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with a the heart for the truth
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of His love for all humanity,
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knowing that I myself can never
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be good enough in my own
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strength, I will gladly wear the
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robe of righteousness,
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which is Jesus.
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Here in the dressing room, where
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we become the reflection of
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Christ, we will be known by
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what's inside our hearts.
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Now, walking into my grandma's
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attic was like stepping into a
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treasure load of everything she
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has ever owned in the seven
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decades of her and grandpa's
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life together.
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From broken old toasters to
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dresses of every size, boxes
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piled high were filled with
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letters and cards of every
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holiday and occasion, Christmas,
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Valentines, birthdays, and
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anniversaries.
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Every one given to her
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throughout her adult life had
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been treasured and kept.
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But I think the real reason my
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grandma hung on to all this
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stuff was because she needed her
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life close to her.
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She needed to know that her life
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was worth something.
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It gave her comfort and value.
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My grandma is gone now and
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family has had to deal with
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getting rid of all that stored
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up stuff of hers.
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Boxes of papers and clothes had
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to be tossed, full of mildew.
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We must learn when to let go
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of things.
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If something in our life is not
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giving us a good purpose, it
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clutters us up inside to
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overwhelming proportions.
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In the attic of our personal
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house, we store up all kinds of
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things.
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I like to compare these boxes in
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storage to compartments within
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ourselves.
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And while some of our boxes are
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great, wonderful boxes, some of
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those boxes need to go.
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But just like it's hard to let
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go of our worldly possessions,
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it can be even harder to let go
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of our emotional clutter.
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One of the hardest boxes I have
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had to deal with for mindful
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purging is one that even now as
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I tell you about it,
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is not easy.
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I wish, like everything, this
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box did not exist.
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But it does.
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I have tried for many years to
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just throw it away, but that
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only buried it into the back
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corner of my attic, collecting
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rot and dust.
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Because when we don't deal with
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an issue in our lives, it just
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grows and festers into something
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much worse.
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For me, it was hatred.
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I hated my rapist
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and I hated myself.
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When Jesus came to live with me
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and I was opening every room of
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my house up to Him, we
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eventually came to this attic
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door and I knew we were about to
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face all my boxes.
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We began opening the smaller,
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safer ones like happy memories
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and what brings me joy and a few
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important ones I needed to throw
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out, like grudges and offences.
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But then in the dark, damp
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corner of fear, stood that box.
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But by now, after spending so
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much time with Jesus, I knew
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I could trust Him implicitly.
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So together we opened its lid.
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I had been hoarding up anger and
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resentment, fear and
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retaliation, filling that box
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since I was 14 years old.
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There wasn't much room for
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anything else, it was so packed
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full.
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Now, years later, I grabbed hold
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of Jesus's hand and together we
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faced it head on.
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Now I won't perfume it.
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It stank.
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It was one of the ugliest,
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hardest, most painful and scary
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things I have ever faced
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in my life.
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But Jesus knew exactly what to
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do with it.
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So I gave it to Him, and He
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turned that rotten moulding box
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chock full of its intrusive
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garbage into something of worth.
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He truly sets us free.
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How thankful I am that He is the
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judge of all things.
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And it's not my worry.
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But there's more.
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There are treasures worth
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hanging on to and they are right
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here in my trunk.
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My dad's Bible.
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This Word of God is one of the
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best treasures that we can
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ever have.
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For Him to speak directly to us
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in a letter of love.
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And as we talked about in the
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living room, where once we were
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dead, this Bible, these letters,
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these stories come alive.
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So this is where we grow, this
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is where it starts.
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One of the best treasures He has
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ever given to us...
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Ah!
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This is a very special book.
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A science book.
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This science book was my
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mother's.
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She had it when she was in
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school.
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It was in our bookcase when I
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was growing up and I loved it.
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This is my favourite book.
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I would pore over this book,
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especially when I was learning
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to read.
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There's so much to learn about
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God by just learning about Him
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in the world that He has created
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for us, a beautiful, wonderful
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world.
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[chest creaking]
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Now I love antiques so in my
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house there are a lot of
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antiques.
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The telephone.
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Did you know that the telephone
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is a representation of a
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wonderful treasure that we can
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have stored up for heaven?
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Oh, yeah.
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This phone represents prayer.
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Talking to God.
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Wow!
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What a treasure that we can
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communicate with Him and that He
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hears us and that He cares about
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us and that He wants to talk
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with us.
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What a beautiful, beautiful
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treasure.
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I have a very special camera.
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This camera belonged to my
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grandpa, and he took it overseas
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during World War II and took a
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lot of pictures.
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It also was their family camera
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through the fifties and into the
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sixties.
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So when I look through old
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family photo albums, I look back
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at the reflections in those
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pictures of my grandparents and
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my mom and the rest of their
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children and I can see a
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resemblance in those
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photographs.
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"Oh, Grandma looks like me or I
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look like her."
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A reflection of Christ.
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A picture of who He is all
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around us in those
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who resemble Him.
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Because we're a family and
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together we look like Him, we
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look like we belong to Him.
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Ha ha...
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What about baby shoes?
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How do these have anything to do
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with storing up treasures for
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heaven?
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When we are new Christians,
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we're like babies and the Bible
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says that we must become like
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little children to enter the
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kingdom of heaven.
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What does that mean?
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That means that we need to learn
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how to walk with God.
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It doesn't come naturally, it
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doesn't come easy.
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But when we fall and we stumble
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just like a little child
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learning to walk, He picks us
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up, He carries us through, and
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we learn and we grow.
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And our walk with Him becomes
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much, much easier.
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Okay...
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...here's a special
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jewel of mine.
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An old radio.
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You know, when I'm in prayer or
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I have something that I need to
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.39
communicate with God, He speaks
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to me through the Word of God,
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through the Bible, for sure, but
00:22:15.86\00:22:18.40
sometimes He speaks to me
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through music.
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Music is so powerful in how God
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speaks to the heart and our
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emotions as well.
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My last item...
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...a very, very special item.
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This is an old microphone.
00:22:41.86\00:22:45.03
When my dad passed away and I
00:22:45.03\00:22:47.76
went to my mom's house, one of
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the first things I saw
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was his desk.
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My dad loved the ham radio.
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Every morning he would get up at
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3:30 a.m. and be ready on air at
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4 a.m. every single morning to
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give Bible studies.
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We didn't know who was listening
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until when he passed away the
00:23:15.09\00:23:17.43
emails and the letters, cards
00:23:17.43\00:23:20.70
poured in to give my mom their
00:23:20.70\00:23:23.47
sympathies.
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He had touched so many lives.
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And it's important and a real
00:23:28.64\00:23:30.64
gift that God gives to us to go
00:23:30.64\00:23:33.81
and tell others about Him.
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That's a wonderful treasure to
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.38
have, because when we go to
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heaven, there are two things
00:23:39.58\00:23:41.25
that we take with us, our
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character and those that we have
00:23:43.55\00:23:46.19
shared Jesus with.
00:23:46.19\00:23:48.99
So remember, wherever your
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treasure is, there the desires
00:23:50.63\00:23:53.86
of your heart will be also.
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I cannot express enough how
00:23:57.13\00:23:59.87
important it is to have our
00:23:59.87\00:24:02.27
hearts in the right place with
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.74
Jesus, because there will be a
00:24:04.74\00:24:06.94
time that we will need to cling
00:24:06.94\00:24:10.05
to Him stronger than we ever
00:24:10.05\00:24:13.05
thought possible.
00:24:13.05\00:24:14.42
As I take you to the bedroom
00:24:15.05\00:24:17.02
next week, I will tell you
00:24:17.02\00:24:19.59
exactly why.
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>> Paulie, I gotta thank you for
00:24:24.43\00:24:25.79
all the spiritual lessons that
00:24:25.79\00:24:27.03
we learned in each of the rooms
00:24:27.03\00:24:28.36
that you took us through today
00:24:28.36\00:24:29.83
in this old Victorian house
00:24:29.83\00:24:31.13
of yours.
00:24:31.13\00:24:31.97
Into the bathroom, just to
00:24:31.97\00:24:33.67
remind our viewers of what
00:24:33.67\00:24:34.97
happened in each of those rooms.
00:24:34.97\00:24:36.71
So right there, confessing your
00:24:36.71\00:24:39.07
sins, the most vulnerable room,
00:24:39.07\00:24:42.28
the most intimate, private room,
00:24:42.28\00:24:44.41
being naked before God, right?
00:24:44.41\00:24:46.88
>> That's right.
00:24:46.88\00:24:47.75
>> And to go into that place of
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.52
confession, a necessary place to
00:24:49.52\00:24:52.22
confess our sins.
00:24:52.22\00:24:53.52
And then to come into the
00:24:53.52\00:24:54.52
dressing room.
00:24:54.52\00:24:55.92
So when we dress, what we look
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.19
like, not to look at the
00:24:58.19\00:25:00.43
outside, but to realize that God
00:25:00.43\00:25:01.73
looks at the heart and to see
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.53
others that way.
00:25:03.53\00:25:04.57
>> That's right.
00:25:04.57\00:25:05.57
>> And then finally, the attic,
00:25:05.57\00:25:07.24
and next week, we'll talk about
00:25:07.24\00:25:09.20
one of those boxes that you
00:25:09.20\00:25:10.71
mentioned and we'll go to the
00:25:10.71\00:25:13.98
bedroom, a place of
00:25:13.98\00:25:16.44
quietness, of rest of peace.
00:25:16.44\00:25:19.11
And so I just find that what you
00:25:20.38\00:25:22.65
shared with us is so important,
00:25:22.65\00:25:25.05
that we need to kind of let some
00:25:25.05\00:25:27.16
of these things go but hold on
00:25:27.16\00:25:29.39
to others.
00:25:29.39\00:25:30.46
These are treasures in our
00:25:30.46\00:25:31.39
lives, and they have touched us
00:25:31.39\00:25:32.59
in many ways.
00:25:32.59\00:25:33.63
So thank you for sharing those
00:25:33.63\00:25:35.16
with us.
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[PAULIE] You're welcome.
00:25:36.00\00:25:36.83
>> So we've come to the end of
00:25:36.83\00:25:38.07
our program, Paulie, but I'm
00:25:38.07\00:25:39.97
really looking forward to next
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.37
week when we join you and go
00:25:42.37\00:25:44.84
with you into the bedroom, just
00:25:44.84\00:25:47.11
to learn all the lessons, the
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.21
spiritual lessons, that you're
00:25:49.21\00:25:50.61
gonna teach us in the bedroom.
00:25:50.61\00:25:52.95
But before we go, Love, can you
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.52
pray for us?
00:25:54.52\00:25:55.25
>> Absolutely.
00:25:55.25\00:25:56.18
Okay, let's pray together.
00:25:56.18\00:25:57.72
Father in heaven, You have been
00:25:57.72\00:25:59.29
so good to us.
00:25:59.29\00:26:00.29
You do forgive us of our sins,
00:26:00.29\00:26:01.99
You cleanse us from all
00:26:01.99\00:26:03.46
unrighteousness, and You give us
00:26:03.46\00:26:05.36
eyes to look at one another
00:26:05.36\00:26:07.23
with grace.
00:26:07.23\00:26:08.60
And to also look at the
00:26:08.60\00:26:11.43
treasures in our lives and
00:26:11.43\00:26:12.87
appreciate the places You've led
00:26:12.87\00:26:14.80
us in the past.
00:26:14.80\00:26:15.77
Because we have no fear for the
00:26:15.77\00:26:16.81
future except we forget the way
00:26:16.81\00:26:18.57
You have led us in the past and
00:26:18.57\00:26:21.28
the way that You're gonna
00:26:21.28\00:26:22.31
continue to lead us in the
00:26:22.31\00:26:23.38
future, giving us hope.
00:26:23.38\00:26:25.18
We pray these things and we
00:26:25.18\00:26:26.21
thank You.
00:26:26.21\00:26:26.88
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:26:26.88\00:26:28.48
>> Paulie, thank you so much for
00:26:29.88\00:26:30.99
joining us on It Is Written
00:26:30.99\00:26:32.62
Canada.
00:26:32.62\00:26:33.69
>> Oh, thank you for being here
00:26:33.69\00:26:35.82
with me in my house.
00:26:35.82\00:26:37.56
>> Wherever you find yourself on
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.23
your spiritual journey, whether
00:26:42.23\00:26:43.93
you are just testing the waters
00:26:43.93\00:26:46.13
of belief in the God of the
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.24
Bible, or a long time
00:26:48.24\00:26:50.24
churchgoer, our free offer,
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.34
Daring To Ask For More, will
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.38
inspire and challenge you to a
00:26:54.38\00:26:56.54
life of faith and purpose.
00:26:56.54\00:26:59.41
>> Not only will Daring To Ask
00:26:59.41\00:27:01.58
For More challenge you to pray
00:27:01.58\00:27:03.85
as you've never prayed before,
00:27:03.85\00:27:06.25
but it will give you extremely
00:27:06.25\00:27:08.26
practical tools and specific
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.59
pointers on how to develop the
00:27:10.59\00:27:13.13
spiritual discipline needed as
00:27:13.13\00:27:15.80
you open your heart to Jesus,
00:27:15.80\00:27:18.30
remodelling every room
00:27:18.30\00:27:20.34
of your life.
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>> And with your book, we will
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.04
enclose one of Paulie's
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.04
bookmarks with Proverbs 24:3
00:27:26.04\00:27:29.08
and 4.
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>> Which reads...
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00:27:56.27\00:27:58.67
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00:27:58.67\00:28:01.18
>> You, too, can experience the
00:28:01.18\00:28:02.81
fullness of life that is found
00:28:02.81\00:28:04.71
in the words of Jesus when He
00:28:04.71\00:28:06.28
said, "It is written, 'Man shall
00:28:06.28\00:28:08.92
not live by bread alone, but by
00:28:08.92\00:28:10.52
every word that proceeds out of
00:28:10.52\00:28:13.42
the mouth of God.'"
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