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>>Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We're glad to have
you back again today.
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Well, this is lesson number 12,
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the final lesson this
quarter as we've been looking
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at "Managing for the
Master Till He Comes."
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We've come quite a distance.
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We've talked about a number
of subjects along the way.
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We've looked at
success, we've looked at tithe,
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we've looked at
offerings, we've looked at
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how to care for the poor, and
today we're going to be taking
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a look at the
rewards of faithfulness.
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What are the
rewards that await those
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who have been faithful stewards
of all God has given them?
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That's what we're
gonna take a look at today.
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With us again is the author
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of the Sabbath
school lesson, Ed Reid.
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He is an ordained minister
and also a licensed attorney.
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He's been involved in
stewardship for over 30 years,
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and he has been a blessing
as we've studied week by week.
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Before we ask him about
this week's lesson, though,
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let's begin with prayer.
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Father, we thank You
again for being with us,
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as You have for
the last quarter,
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and we ask that
You'll bless us as we study
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this final lesson in the series,
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so that we can see what
success truly looks like
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and the rewards that
You have for the faithful.
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We thank You in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Ed, thanks for
being with us once again.
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>>Well, we've had
a good time together,
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and thank you
for inviting me back.
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>>Oh, we're
delighted to have you.
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Let's talk about
this week's lesson.
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The memory text is from
Matthew 25 and verse 21.
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It says this: "His lord
said to him, 'Well done,
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"'good and faithful
servant; you [are] faithful
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"'over a few things, I will
make you ruler over many things.
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Enter into the
joy of your lord.'"
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When we look at
some of the stories,
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as we have looked
at them this quarter,
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we think of people like Abraham,
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we think of people like Moses,
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we think about
people like Paul who were
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and could have been very
successful in the secular world,
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but they gave all
that up to follow God.
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What--why would they do that?
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>>Well, they did actually
a Ben Franklin list, Eric;
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they decided what are the
pros and what are the cons
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for doing what the world
offers and what does God offer.
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And the simple
answer is they did it
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in hope of the reward
because God promised them
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something amazing and
not only a blessed life here
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and a more
abundant life, but rewards
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out of this world, literally.
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>>So, huge rewards
that God has offered
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for those who
are faithful to Him,
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and Abraham, Moses,
Paul, and many others saw that.
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I wanna read a passage
here from the book of Psalms
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and have you comment on it, Ed.
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This is Psalm 19, verses 7-11.
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I'm gonna read
through this fairly quickly.
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It says, "The law
of the Lord is perfect,
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"converting the soul; the
testimony of the Lord is sure,
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"making wise the simple; the
statutes of the Lord are right,
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"rejoicing the heart;
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"the commandment of the Lord
is pure, enlightening the eyes;
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"the fear of the Lord is clean,
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"enduring forever; the
judgments of the Lord are true
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"and righteous altogether.
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"More to be
desired are they than gold,
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"yea, than much
fine gold; sweeter also
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than honey and the honeycomb."
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And then it
finishes with this statement:
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"Moreover by them
Your servant is warned,
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and in keeping them
there is great reward."
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Those sound like
encouraging words.
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>>Yes indeed, and the
amazing thing about it
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is it's talked
about a great reward.
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To me, it's interesting
that this is not legalistic;
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it's just simply that
God said if you take up
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your side of the contract,
you'll be blessed in this life,
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and you'll have a future
life to be blessed with as well.
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It's interesting
that in the Bible,
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the word "reward"
is used over 100 times.
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And the last mention of it,
"rewards," is in Revelation 22,
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the last chapter of
the Bible, verse 12,
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where He says, "And,
behold, I come quickly;
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"and my reward is
with me, to give every man
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according as his work shall be."
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In other words, there
are some people who say,
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"I don't care if I have
a mansion in heaven or not.
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"If I just live content,
it's gonna be fine with me.
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I just want to get there."
But that's not the reward.
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The Lord Himself
promised us mansions,
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and that's the interesting part.
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So, no one's
gonna just get there.
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The bottom line is
we get there as a result
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of our faithfulness, and God's
gonna reward us accordingly.
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>>So Jesus has
promised to bring a reward.
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Certainly, mansions
are involved in that,
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living in the presence of God,
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being able to
thank Jesus personally,
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eternal life, so
many different rewards.
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Sunday's lesson
talks about rewards, again,
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the reward for faithfulness.
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How are rewards
associated with faithfulness?
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>>Well, this is
interesting because Paul says
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in 1 Corinthians,
the fourth chapter,
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it's "required in stewards
that one be found faithful."
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So we want to talk
about what faithfulness means.
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We all know that the faith
chapter is Hebrews, chapter 11
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and verse 6
states: "But without faith
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it is impossible to please Him."
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So that's the first constituent
element to please God.
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"For he that
cometh to God must believe
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"that He is, and
that He is a rewarder
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of them that
diligently seek Him."
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So if we diligently seek Him,
He's gonna be a rewarder also.
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So it's interesting.
Moses is a good example of this.
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We're gonna talk
about two or three others
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that are in there, these have
to be Old Testament characters
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'cause it was
written in the New Testament,
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so they didn't
include themselves in it.
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But I can just tell
you something interesting,
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that Moses is a good example.
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Hebrews, chapter
11, verse 24-26 says,
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"By faith Moses,
when he was come to years,
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"refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter;
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"choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people
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of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season"--
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so he knew that the
things on this earth
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were only temporary--
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"esteeming the reproach
of Christ greater riches
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"than the treasures of
Egypt: for he had respect
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unto the
recompense of the reward."
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So he had his
eyes on the reward.
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So I'm gonna give you a
little illustration now.
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We're doing this for
the first quarter of 2023,
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but 2022, where we
are while recording,
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is interesting
because 100 years ago, one of
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the greatest archeological
finds of all time was discovered
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by an English archaeologist
named Howard Carter.
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He discovered King Tut's
tomb, and this is incredible
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because more than 4,000
solid gold artifacts came
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out of that tomb, including
a solid gold sarcophagus,
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solid gold mask. Many of
you have seen pictures of it.
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You can go on the internet
easily--King Tut's tomb,
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and it shows you
right there what it was.
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We understand that
because he was raised
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by Pharaoh's daughter that
Moses was in line for royalty,
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but he chose rather to
suffer with God's people there
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because he knew
about the rewards.
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So what could Moses have
had if he had stayed in Egypt?
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Well, maybe
royalty, a pleasant life
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without much expenses and so on.
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And the interesting thing is
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that he would've been
honored in his burial.
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He, for example,
could have been buried
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in a pyramid in a tomb
with solid gold and all of that.
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But right now, he would be
a mummy in the Cairo Museum,
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and that would
be the end of Moses.
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But the interesting
part is he actually went
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with God's
people and put up with
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all their
murmuring and complaining
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and stiff-necked
actions and so on.
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But God rewarded
him by resurrecting him
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from the dead and
taking him to heaven.
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We know He did that
because it's mentioned
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that in the book of
Jude in the New Testament.
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But beyond that, he was there
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at the
Transfiguration with Elijah.
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Incredible as it may seem,
eternity is in his hands now.
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God honored him with that,
so he--it was a good decision,
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in my opinion; he was much
rewarded for that decision.
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>>You take a look at
what he could have had,
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and most people
would be pretty satisfied
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to have the riches
and the wealth of Egypt.
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But Moses said, "No,
that's a pittance compared
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to what is
actually waiting for me."
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And he set his sights
much higher than anything
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that even Egypt
had in store for him.
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I'd like to read
some passages here
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from a book called
"The Great Controversy."
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These are found
on pages 674 and 675.
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It says, "A fear of making
the future inheritance seem
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"too material has led
many to spiritualize away
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"the very truths which lead
us to look upon it as our home.
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"Christ assured His
disciples that He went
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"to prepare mansions for
them in the Father's house.
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"Those who accept the
teachings of God's word
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"will not be wholly ignorant
concerning the heavenly abode.
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"And yet, 'eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard,
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"'neither have
entered into the heart of man,
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"the things which God hath
prepared for them that love
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Him.' "Human language
is inadequate to describe
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"the reward of the righteous.
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"It will be known only
to those who behold it.
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"No finite mind can
comprehend the glory
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"of the Paradise of God.
In the Bible, the inheritance
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of the saved is
called 'a country'"--
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in Hebrews 11:14-16.
"There the heavenly Shepherd
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"leads His flock to
fountains of living waters.
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"The tree of life
yields its fruit every month,
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"and the leaves of the tree are
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"for the service of the nations.
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"There are ever-flowing
streams, clear as crystal,
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"and beside them
waving trees cast
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"their shadows
upon the paths prepared
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"for the ransomed of the Lord.
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"There the
wide-spreading plains swell
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"into hills of
beauty, and the mountains
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"of God rear
their lofty summits.
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"[Of] those peaceful plains,
beside those living streams,
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"God's people, so long
pilgrims and wanderers,
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shall find a home."
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In Hebrews 11, the famous
faith chapter, Paul states,
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"Without faith it is
impossible to please Him,
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"for he who comes to
God must believe that He is,
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and that He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him."
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After discussing the
faith of Abel, Enoch,
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Noah, and Abraham
and Sarah, Paul notes,
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"These all died in faith, not
having received the promises,
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"but having seen them
afar off were assured of them,
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"embraced them and confessed
that they were strangers
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and pilgrims on the earth."
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So they didn't get
to see the realization,
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but in faith they looked forward
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to the reward
that God had for them.
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>>Their whole earthly
life, Eric, was faithfulness,
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even though they
didn't receive the reward,
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but they will get the
reward, and we're gonna see
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what that is in their
life in just a few minutes.
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It's interesting that in Jesus'
famous Sermon on the Mount,
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He begins it
with the Beatitudes,
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and one of the
Beatitudes stated,
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"Blessed are you
when they [shall] revile
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"and persecute you
and say all kinds of evil
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"against you
falsely for my sake.
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"Rejoice and be
exceedingly glad, for great
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"is your reward in
heaven, for so they persecuted
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the prophets
which were before you."
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There's a reward
for the righteous,
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and we can ask, what are they?
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Well, John 3:16
gives one of them,
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there's only
two choices in life,
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and that is seeking eternal
life or planning on perishing.
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John 3:16 says if we
believe in the Lord Jesus,
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we're gonna have
eternal life saved up for us.
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Romans 6:23 says
something similar:
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"The wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God
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is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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So having the hope of
eternal life is an awesome thing
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that we can live with all
through our earthly life as
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well. >>So for the
righteous, it looks,
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the reward looks
like eternal life.
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For the wicked,
well, unfortunately,
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it's not
something that desirable,
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but ultimately, God
does give us the option.
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He gives us the
privilege to be able to choose
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whether we want eternal life
or, ultimately, destruction.
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You know, the most
famous verse in the Bible,
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John 3:16, says that we
will either have eternal life
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or we will perish,
and perish certainly
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doesn't sound like
much of a, well, much of
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a reward that we would want
in comparison with eternal life.
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But God in His
mercy and His love makes
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those two options
available to each one of us.
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We've been looking this quarter
at what success looks like,
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at financial success, at
preparing for the future,
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at providing for
the means to spread
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the gospel around the world.
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And God gives us, entrusts
to us the means that we have,
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the finances that we
have so that we can learn,
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we can grow, we can
build our characters,
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we can be successful in many
different ways in this life,
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and we can be a
blessing to others
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so that they can get
to know Jesus as well.
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I trust that you have
enjoyed this quarter's lessons.
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We're not done
with this lesson yet,
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but I wanna give you
one final opportunity,
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if for some reason you
have put off doing something
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that you know you should
have done a long time ago.
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Here's one more
opportunity to pick up
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the companion book to this
quarter's Sabbath school lesson.
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You want to pick this
up, don't let this slip by
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without picking it up,
and you will be blessed.
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We're going to be
back in just a moment
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as we continue taking a look
at the rewards of faithfulness.
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We will be right back.
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music swells and ends)
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>>[John Bradshaw] It's
called "the faith chapter."
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Many of the luminaries of
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And you'll be encouraged to
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and faulty people to do
His work in a great way.
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Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Gideon,
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and so many more--it's
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>>[Eric] Welcome
back to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We're taking a look at
the rewards of faithfulness,
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and one of the rewards that
Jesus gives us, promises us,
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those who are
faithful to Him in this life,
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is described in
John 14, verses 1-3.
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I'd like to share that with you.
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Jesus says, "Let not
your heart be troubled:
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"ye believe in
God, believe also in me.
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"In my Father's
house are many mansions:
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"if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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"I go to
prepare a place for you.
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"And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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"I will come again, and
receive you unto myself;
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that where I am,
there ye may be also."
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So, Ed, Jesus has gone
to prepare a place for us,
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and it looks like a pretty
decent place. What do you think?
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>>Plus He's coming
back, and it was His idea
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that He talked to
us about mansions.
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That's not some pie-in-the-sky
idea that we've come up with.
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You know,
skeptics say that "religion
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is the opiate of the
people," that they think
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there's a pie-in-the-sky
by-and-by, and so on.
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These are words of
Jesus I wanted to include
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in here because He says,
"I'm coming back for you.
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There's a mansion for you in
the kingdom." This is His idea.
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>>So this idea
of a mansion for us,
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that He's preparing
for us in the kingdom,
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that leads us to Tuesday's
lesson, "The New Jerusalem."
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New Jerusalem is
a picture of a city
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that is far beyond any
of our wildest imaginations.
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I've been to some
pretty incredible homes
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around the world,
castles and so forth.
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You think of Versailles;
you think of Neuschwanstein
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and other places like
that--I have a feeling
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that this is going to
leave them all behind.
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What was it that
motivated Abraham and Sarah
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to leave an established
home, a place that they had
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and live the rest of their
lives, essentially, in a tent?
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You know, Jesus
promises something fantastic.
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They didn't see that,
really, in their lives.
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>>The interesting
thing about that is
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there is some motivation for it.
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And, believe it or not,
I'm gonna give Sarah credit too
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because she was
willing to go along with it,
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and her name is mentioned
in the faith chapter as well.
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So this is amazing;
this couple were willing
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to leave their established home,
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their friends, and
their roots, and so on
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and travel to a foreign
country and to, essentially,
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live in a tent the
rest of their life.
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There were some
amazing things that happened
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as a result of
that, Abraham's encounters
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with God and so on, but what
made him faithful was recorded
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in Hebrews 11, verse 10,
why he was willing to do that:
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"For he looked for a
city which [has] foundations,
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whose builder and maker is God."
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The only city
mentioned in the Bible
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that talks about its
foundations is the New Jerusalem
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that's described
in Revelation 21.
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So I'm gonna tell you
something interesting;
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eternal life that we
talked about in John 3:16
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and John 14:1-3 is
not more of the same
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we've had on this earth;
it is eternal life based on
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the fourth verse
of Revelation 21,
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with no more sorrow, no
more tears, no more pain,
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no more
suffering, no more death.
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Would you like to
live in a place like that?
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This is incredible, and
then the city is described.
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It's incredible; the
beautiful city, it's amazing.
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It talks about 12
foundations all covered
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with precious stones of
different kinds and so on,
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walls of jasper. I mean,
if you can only imagine this:
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12 gates, and each
gate was one pearl--
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huge, I mean big
enough for a semi
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to drive through, a big
pearl. This isn't crazy.
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Not that we're bringing
semis with us, you understand,
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but something big for
huge crowds of people.
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Also, the city
itself is pure gold,
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and the streets
are paved with gold.
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If you can imagine the
light is the light of Jesus
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and the Father, and it
shines through the whole city.
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It's just incredible.
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The tree of life is
there--do I need to say more?
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The tree of life is
there, the water of life,
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the pure crystal water.
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Today, we know mostly
about polluted waters here,
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and we have to strain our water.
00:19:05.47\00:19:06.74
And we know
there's even some cities
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that have awful water
here in America today.
00:19:07.88\00:19:10.45
But the interesting
thing is God's throne
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is there, and He's the light.
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To me, this is incredible,
that's what motivated him
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to go forward and
them to live there,
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even though they
didn't receive it,
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even though they
were told that their seed
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will be like the stars of
heaven and the sand of the sea.
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Of course that's true today,
but it wasn't for him then.
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But he was by faith;
he was always faithful.
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He's called "the
father of the faithful"
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because he had
his eyes on the prize.
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He had his eyes on the
reward that God offered him.
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>>Ed, we look at those rewards,
00:19:37.84\00:19:39.21
and if we are thinking people,
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we want those; we
want to inherit those;
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we want to move into that
city, to make our abode there,
00:19:44.38\00:19:48.22
and to be surrounded by
these incredible things.
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They sound a whole lot
better than what we have here
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on this earth regardless
of where we might live.
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On Wednesday's
lesson, it talks about
00:19:56.73\00:19:58.39
the settling of
accounts; we wanna make it
00:19:58.39\00:20:01.53
to the reward
that God has for us.
00:20:01.53\00:20:03.60
But there's some accounts
that need to be settled first.
00:20:03.60\00:20:06.47
And Jesus tells
us a story, a parable
00:20:06.47\00:20:09.17
of the talents in Matthew
25, verses 14 through 19,
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about somebody who's
traveling into a far country.
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What is the purpose of this
parable? What does it all mean?
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What can we learn from it?
00:20:19.41\00:20:21.05
And what does it really
mean to settle accounts?
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>>This is a good question
because Jesus' disciples came
00:20:23.72\00:20:26.99
to Him privately in
Matthew 24, verse 3 and said,
00:20:26.99\00:20:29.66
"Tell us, when
will these things be?
00:20:29.66\00:20:30.96
And what will be the
sign of Your coming?"
00:20:30.96\00:20:32.69
So Jesus gave a private
discourse to His faithful
00:20:32.69\00:20:36.20
disciples, whom He loved dearly
and was going to leave soon.
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And an
incredible thing, He says,
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here's what you're gonna
expect to see in the world--
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and this is Matthew
24--you're gonna see wars
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and rumors of wars, pestilence,
00:20:43.87\00:20:45.14
famines, all kinds
of things like that.
00:20:45.14\00:20:47.81
And the gospel's
going to all the world,
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and then Jesus will come.
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But then, Matthew 25
where He tells the stories
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of the 10
virgins, and the talents,
00:20:53.68\00:20:55.55
and the sheep and
the goats, that's talking
00:20:55.55\00:20:57.95
about what's it like in the
church just before He comes.
00:20:57.95\00:21:01.36
Because--remember
the 10 virgins?
00:21:01.36\00:21:02.99
There were five
foolish and five wise.
00:21:02.99\00:21:07.03
All of them professed the truth.
00:21:07.03\00:21:09.00
All of them were
waiting for the bridegroom.
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.70
But the foolish ones didn't have
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.37
the Holy Spirit to
transform their lives.
00:21:12.37\00:21:14.60
So they're all
part of His servants.
00:21:14.60\00:21:17.01
And since you asked the
question about the talents,
00:21:17.01\00:21:19.41
this is
incredible, because this master
00:21:19.41\00:21:22.21
who's going to a
far country called
00:21:22.21\00:21:23.85
his own servants
and gave it to 'em.
00:21:23.85\00:21:25.41
He's not talked about the money
that the wicked people have.
00:21:25.41\00:21:28.68
It's the money that
God's people have had.
00:21:28.68\00:21:30.49
And this is incredible
when you think about it
00:21:30.49\00:21:32.32
because he gave one a
five, and one two, and one one.
00:21:32.32\00:21:36.19
And the ones that
had the most doubled
00:21:36.19\00:21:39.23
their amounts and were blessed
00:21:39.23\00:21:40.93
and were given responsibilities
in heaven and so on.
00:21:40.93\00:21:43.80
But believe it or not, the
guy with the one talent was
00:21:43.80\00:21:46.17
the one unfaithful one.
00:21:46.17\00:21:47.97
So everybody's got
at least one talent.
00:21:47.97\00:21:50.44
Let me just tell you
something interesting.
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If you work your whole
life in your earning years
00:21:52.71\00:21:55.08
and you just make minimum wage,
00:21:55.08\00:21:56.88
you're gonna make more
than a million dollars.
00:21:56.88\00:21:59.11
Should you give
an account of that?
00:21:59.11\00:22:00.75
Of course. The amazing thing is
00:22:00.75\00:22:03.49
he was unfaithful,
so he was cast out.
00:22:03.49\00:22:05.99
That's pretty sad
when you think about it.
00:22:05.99\00:22:08.59
But I want to tell
you that God's told us
00:22:08.59\00:22:11.06
that the parable of the talents,
00:22:11.06\00:22:13.73
and it's recorded in
volume--"Testimonies to the
00:22:13.73\00:22:17.03
Church," volume 1, page
97: "I was shown...the parable
00:22:17.03\00:22:20.04
"of the talents [is]
not...fully understood.
00:22:20.04\00:22:21.80
"This important lesson
was given to the disciples"--
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.94
remember this
private meeting with Jesus--
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.71
"for the benefit of Christians
living in the last days.
00:22:26.71\00:22:29.68
"And these talents
do not represent merely
00:22:29.68\00:22:31.78
"the ability to preach and to
instruct [in] the word of God.
00:22:31.78\00:22:34.48
"The parable applies
to the temporal means
00:22:34.48\00:22:36.89
which God has
entrusted to His people."
00:22:36.89\00:22:38.92
So when he comes
back to settle accounts,
00:22:38.92\00:22:41.96
it's kind of like,
"Well, tell me what you've done
00:22:41.96\00:22:45.33
with what I've
entrusted to you."
00:22:45.33\00:22:47.03
So it's kind of a
judgment day, if you please.
00:22:47.03\00:22:49.90
>>So God is going
to hold us accountable
00:22:49.90\00:22:51.73
for the things
that He has given to us,
00:22:51.73\00:22:53.67
including temporal
means, as you just mentioned.
00:22:53.67\00:22:56.84
>>Yes. >>Worth considering
00:22:56.84\00:22:59.84
when we decide where we
want to spend that money.
00:22:59.84\00:23:02.64
Thursday's lesson,
"Eyes on the Prize,"
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Thursday talks about Paul,
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and Paul went
through the wringer.
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He went through
beating, stoning, prison,
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shipwreck, hunger, cold,
he went through the gamut,
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and yet he was
able to endure it all.
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What was it that
helped Paul get through
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everything he went through?
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>>This is really
interesting because many times
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he talked about the reward,
and, to me, it's incredible
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that he was willing
to endure all he did.
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Sometimes I think
that I've been so blessed
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that I haven't ever been
stoned and left for dead.
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I have never
been beaten with rods.
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I've never been
thrown in prison.
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And I've tried to be
faithful and honor God
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in all of my
life and in my works
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and my writings and
my speaking and so on.
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But the bottom line
is, would I be faithful,
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even if that wasn't the case,
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if I did have a
life of difficulty?
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That's the kind of thing
that we're talking about.
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But in Romans he says,
"The Spirit...beareth witness
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[to] our spirit that
we're the children of God."
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He recognized that. "And if
children, then heirs of God;
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"...joint-heirs with Christ;
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"...so be [if]
we suffer with Him,
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...we [shall all]
be...glorified together."
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Then he says
this one in verse 18:
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"I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time
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"are not worthy to be
compared with the glory
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which [God has]
revealed [to] us."
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This is incredible.
And we're gonna look
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at a couple verses
here beyond that as well.
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>>So Paul had his
eyes set on the prize,
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the ultimate goal that he
was striving toward by the grace
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of God, and he didn't
let that out of his sight.
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You mentioned some of
the things he's gone through.
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Share a little
bit more about Paul
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in the time that we have left.
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>>Well, it's interesting to see
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that he wrote in
Philippians; by the way,
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that's one of the prison
epistles, so it's incredible.
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He's in prison,
knows he's gonna die.
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And he wrote this to people:
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"I don't count
myself to have apprehended;
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"but one thing I do,
[I forget] those things
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"which are behind
and [I reach] forward
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"to those
things which are ahead,
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"[and] I press toward
the goal [of] the prize
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of the upward call
of God in Christ Jesus."
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So it's very interesting
that early on in his ministry--
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I like the fact that Paul said
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when Jesus returns, "The
dead in Christ will rise first,
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"and then we [that]
are alive and remain"--
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like he thought he was
gonna be part of that group--
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"will be caught up together
to meet the Lord in the air."
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Well, finally, near
the end of his ministry,
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he realized that
wasn't gonna be the case.
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So he wrote to Timothy
these words in 2 Timothy,
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fourth chapter. Would
you kindly read those to us?
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>>In 2 Timothy,
chapter 4, verses 6-8,
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this passage is often referred
to as Paul's valedictory,
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and we're gonna tie
this quarter's lessons
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together with these words.
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Paul writes, "For I am
now ready to be offered,
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"and the time of my
departure is at hand.
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"I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
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"I have kept the faith:
henceforth there is laid up
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"for me a crown
of righteousness,
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"which the Lord,
the righteous judge,
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"shall give me at that
day: and not to me only,
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but unto all them also
that love His appearing."
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Ed, we've been through 12 weeks
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of "Managing for the Master."
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We're down to the
last couple of minutes.
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Tie things together for us.
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What are the
nuggets that you hope
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that we've been able to
gain from these 12 weeks,
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this journey that
we have spent together?
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>>Thank you, I can
actually do that in one verse.
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And that verse is Matthew
13:44, in the words of Jesus:
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"Again, the kingdom of
heaven is like treasure hidden
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"in a field, which
a man found and hid;
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"and for joy over it...
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sells all that he
has [to buy the] field."
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My question to all of us:
Have we found the treasure?
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Have we found
something worth giving up
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to get to the kingdom?
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"Things of this earth will
go strangely dim in the light
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of His glory and grace,"
as we learned in the song.
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So what I would say to
people is put God first.
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Recognize that
He is the treasure.
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He's the one that
has the opportunity
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to provide the treasure for us.
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And if we're faithful
to Him, when He comes back,
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He will say, "Well done,
good and faithful servant.
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Enter into the
joy of your Lord."
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>>Ed, we wanna
thank you for spending
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these 12 weeks
with us, guiding us
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through this incredible subject.
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It has been a wonderful
journey, and I have no doubt
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that many people's
lives are going to be changed,
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not just in this
earth but for eternity
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as a result of
what we've been studied.
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And I'd like to
thank you for joining us
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for the last 12 weeks,
and if, for some reason,
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you haven't been able to
join us for these 12 weeks,
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you can go back and
watch the archived versions,
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or episodes, of
this quarter's lesson
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so that you can receive
the blessing of it as well.
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Once again, if you
haven't already picked it up,
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make sure that you pick
up "Managing for the Master."
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This is a phenomenal read,
and you will enjoy it immensely.
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We're excited to have
had you on this journey.
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We trust that
there are some things
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that you can now put
into practice in your life
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that will bless
you in this world
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and bless you in
the world to come.
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Next week we're going to be
back with a brand new quarter,
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a brand new subject, and you
won't want to miss an episode.
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Thank you once
again for joining us here
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