I don't understand
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why did this
have to happen to me?
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I feel like I just
can't make sense of things.
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I need answers.
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Where is God?
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In the 16th century,
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the state religion
combined with France,
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perpetrated one of the
worst massacres in Christendom.
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Seventy thousand innocent lives
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were slain in a few weeks.
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It was an
incredibly intense time.
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Welcome to Raw
Questions Relevant Answers.
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My name is Mark Paden,
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and I'm joined by
my co-host Dee Casper
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and Michelle Doucoumes.
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And this is a program
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in which we
seek biblical answers
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to the raw
questions that we deal
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with as young people
on a day-to-day basis.
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And today's topic
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that we are heading
is a pretty heavy one.
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It's on the
subject of bad religion.
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And the reason I started off
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with that example from
Christian history is that,
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you know, a lot
of times it seems
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like the followers of God
do some of the worst things,
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I mean, 70,000 innocent lives,
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against fellow
Christians nonetheless.
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So what we're
going to do is again
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we're going to dive
through some of these questions
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that have been
submitted by young people
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around the country
and around the world.
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So the first one
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that we're going to
hit is from a young female,
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age 15, in the
state of Tennessee.
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"Why does the church
force things upon you
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and cause you to
have feelings of guilt?
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Don't they realize
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that they are
just confusing everyone
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and making them resent God?
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Then we have to live
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for what other
people tell us to do,
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but inside we
are alone and hurting
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because our whole life is a lie.
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Does God really want this?
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If not, why doesn't He
do something about it?"
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So the first thing
we would say is no,
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God doesn't want this.
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And I just want use
a brief reference here,
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two brief references
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that God has
nothing to do with this.
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The first is in Ezekiel 36:22,
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He says, "Therefore
say to the house of Israel,
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'I do not do this
what I'm about to do
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for your sake,
O house of Israel,
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but for My holy name's sake,
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which you have profaned among
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the nations wherever you went.'"
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In short, God is
distancing Himself
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from the behavior
of the people of God.
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"I'm going to
have to do something
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because you've made a mess
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of My reputation
before the world."
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He would eventually end up
telling is actually the promise
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of the new
covenant in Ezekiel 36
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of God transforming our lives
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through the Holy Spirit
to live an obedient life.
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And He says that,
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"The surrounding nations
will know that I'm the Lord
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when I'm hallowed in
you before their eyes."
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People will want
something to do with God
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when the people
of God look like God.
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There's a similar
illusion to this in Acts 26
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where Paul is telling his
testimony to King Agrippa.
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And as he's confronted by
Jesus on the road to Damascus
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he says, "Saul, Saul,
why do you persecute me?"
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Well, the thing is
he didn't have a warrant
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for the arrest of Jesus.
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Jesus is ascended to
heaven at this stage.
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He had a warrant
for the rest of people
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who followed Jesus.
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And Jesus here
seemed to be identifying
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with the people
who are persecuted
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in His name by
people who believed in God.
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And so I think
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that there is some
good news for us immediately
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that God has nothing
to do with bad religion.
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He distances Himself
from incenses of bad religion.
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The question then is,
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"Why does God allow
these things to happen?"
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Well, this is not
God's ideal by any means,
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but what God is seeking to do
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is to redeem that bad influence,
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and His call for
them was always to be
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a good influence.
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Sometimes our zeal can
lead us to take actions
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that we think are right,
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wanting to do
right that cause harm.
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The amazing thing is God
pursues us in spite of that,
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and God is earnestly striving
to improve His reputation
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in the eyes of the world
through genuine Christians.
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And above all else,
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you know, we're really
going to know what God is like
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is by searching the
Word of God for ourselves.
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That would be my initial answer.
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Yeah.
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You know, Dee, I
see through Scripture
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how much Jesus
hates bad religion too.
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Yes.
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And so, you know, Matthew 23,
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there is pretty much
a whole chapter of Him
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be crying the evils
of the religious system
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in His day.
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Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees
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because of all
these different things
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that they do including the fact
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that they were whitewash
tombs, He said, they looked good
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but they weren't inside.
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Or in Matthew 21,
Jesus cleanses the temple.
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There was nothing
that He hated more.
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You don't see Jesus
really getting angry often,
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but when it came to His house,
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His people, His church not being
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what they were supposed
to, it really made Him angry.
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At the same time though,
we see God who's merciful,
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and that He's
reluctant to give us up.
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He talks about Jerusalem
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and said that He wanted to
gather them under His wings
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like a hen gathers its chicks.
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And so realize that
Jesus doesn't love it
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when the church puts
guilt that shouldn't be there.
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At the same time, oh,
my, He's also merciful,
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not wanting to lose His
church, His body either.
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And so I would say with this
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that the huge thing is to
look at what's going on and say,
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"Hey, is this guilt?
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Is this really coming from God?
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Or is this coming from
a source that is not God?"
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Maybe some people
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who are unfortunately
misrepresenting God.
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Yeah, it reminds me, like,
even with the Apostle Paul,
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God is seeking to use
him in ministry, right?
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He changes his life and He says,
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"For this
purpose I've come to you
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that you may proclaim My
name among the Gentiles."
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God's still
pursuing those people
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that are hurting us
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because He wants
them in the kingdom
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'cause He's got
something He can work with.
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They want to serve
God, they have a zeal
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but not according to knowledge,
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they need to
have a transformation.
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What they need is a
face-to-face encounter
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with Jesus.
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If it worked for Saul of Tarsus,
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it can work for me,
it can work for them.
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And, I think, it's a great point
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that Michelle made
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that we can't
lose sight of that.
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These people are sincere, right?
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It's not like that they
want nothing to do with God,
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they want to, you know,
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just absolutely destroy
His reputation in the world.
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They're trying to do right,
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they're just
doing it the wrong way.
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I just want to
make sure that's clear.
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But God has a
better plan in mind,
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and for
whatever reason God feels
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that He can get
the most glory out
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of using people
to spread the gospel
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to the world instead of angels.
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And what God is doing is making
the best of that situation
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by transforming people
to be the best messengers.
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He's still
working that process out
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but He will succeed.
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Here's another thing
that I really appreciate.
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This is from a periodical
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actually, Signs of the
Times, July 1, 1889 in fact.
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Yeah, it was written
a little bit ago, but...
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Yeah.
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I think this is just
really refreshing perspective.
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"There are many
who try to correct
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the life of others by attacking
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what they
consider are wrong habits.
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They go to those who may think
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are in error and
point out their defects.
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They say, 'You
don't dress as you should,
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you don't dress as you should.'
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They try to pick
off the ornaments
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or whatever seems offensive.
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But they do not seek to
fasten the mind to truth.
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Those who seek to
correct others should present
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the attractions of Jesus.
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They should talk of
His love and compassion.
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Present His
example and sacrifice,
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reveal His Spirit."
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Wow!
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And, I think, the
power of this is just that,
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you know, if we really as,
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especially as leaders
in the work of God want
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to affect lives for the good
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and want to change them
and bring them closer to God,
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really what we need to do is
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show them Jesus,
show them His love,
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show them His sacrifice.
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Be an example of
kindness and courtesy
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and true Christian
grace and friendship.
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And in this process,
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that will win
people that going up
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and just telling somebody
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to stop doing that little thing,
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he's going to do.
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Now I do want to
just flip over on one hand
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and bring around the fact
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that just because
somebody comes to you
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and addresses
something in your life in a way
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that you may not appreciate
and may actually be wrong
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and bad doesn't give you
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then the license to
negate what they said.
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They may be right, you
know. On spirit, right.
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Exactly.
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So as Christians
and as young people
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especially who are
most often the ones
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who are prone to
face this kind of thing,
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you know, when that
person comes up to us
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and says something that,
you know, we don't like it,
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maybe the
better part of humility
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would be to say,
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"Okay, I really
don't appreciate that."
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And recognize
that for what it is,
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you know, it's not good.
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But then at the same time
say, "Okay, Lord, search me.
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Am I doing Your will?"
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Because that's really
where wisdom comes in.
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Yes. Wow!
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Check our pride at the
door. Exactly, exactly.
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Okay.
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Now let's move on
to our next question.
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This comes from
a female, age 28,
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in the state of Washington.
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"How can we learn to separate
the hurtful actions of people
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within our denomination
from Adventism itself?"
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Well, first, I just want to say
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that we amongst all
faiths are not unique.
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All denominations,
all faiths are wrestling
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with bad representatives, right?
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But that does
not negate the fact
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that we still have
a problem internally
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that we should deal with, right?
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Just make sure that
that disclaimer is clear.
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I remember hearing
the story of Gandhi,
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Mahatma Gandhi
who had heard about
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the teachings of Jesus
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and they were
supremely attractive to him
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and he wanted to learn more.
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And so he shows up to a church,
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and I'm going
somewhere with this, I promise,
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you may think
I'm just making rant,
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"What's this guy doing?"
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But he shows up to a
church and one of the elders
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in this church in India
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makes a beeline
for the door and says,
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"You are not welcome here."
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And it's because
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there's the
caste system in India,
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you know, kind of
different tiers of society.
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He wasn't of the right
caste and he wasn't white.
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So because of
this the guy told him,
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"No, you can't come here.
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You are not welcome there."
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He had another
instance where he was staying
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with Christians in South Africa,
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and just a disclaimer
here, I love South Africans,
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and I've had some
really good roommates
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from South Africa.
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Nothing against
South Africans at all,
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just want to make
sure that's clear.
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But he had stayed
with some bad Christians
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in South Africa
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that were not
good examples to him.
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So these two instances
lead him to have statements
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that are so much debated on
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how he exactly phrased it
but the basic instance was,
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"I would be a Christian
were it not for the Christians.
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And Christians are
so unlike your Christ.
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And, you know, if all
Christians were like Christ,
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the whole world
would be Christians."
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These are some potentially
apocryphal quotes from Gandhi.
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We've heard, "Are
they actually from him?
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Are they not?"
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But the premise
stands true to the fact
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that this man was a seeker,
he was earnestly seeking.
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But because he had a
discouraging experience
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with Christians,
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he decided to close the book
on the whole thing and walk.
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What we owe to God is to search
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for ourselves in the Word of God
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whether what He says is true.
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And it's unfortunate
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because God does
want His messengers
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to be good representatives.
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But in those
moments when they aren't,
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we still owe it to God to
search for ourselves to see
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whether it's true, to
taste and see for ourselves
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that He is good.
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This is what God
is asking from us.
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And I think that's
the least we can do
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if He's going to give
His only begotten Son.
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If it goes to the
heart why are we a Christian,
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why am I a Christian,
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why am I a part of the
church that I'm part of?
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We live in a very
consumer-minded society,
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and so basically,
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"Well, that
church has better music
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and that church
has more young people,
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and this church
has like, good food."
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Is that how we
pick our religion?
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And if we do, we'll always going
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to become
disenchanted with the religion.
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And so I really
like what you said, Dee,
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we need to come to
the heart of the book
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of why we believe
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what we believe and
know why we're there.
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Yeah, and, you know, I
just too want to say...
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I really want to make an appeal
to the young people out there
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who may be are...
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You may be going through this,
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maybe somebody
has hurt them, right?
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Don't give up on God. Amen.
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Don't throw the baby
out with the bathwater.
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You know, I have
found a God in this book
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who is incredibly
beautiful, incredibly loving,
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and incredibly powerful.
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And that far outweighs any time
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that I've been hurt
by somebody in religion.
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You know, it's
easy sometimes for us
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to cry hypocrisy
and want to leave
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because of all the
issues that we see,
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but you know, God is
bigger than the issues
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and God isn't the issues.
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Right.
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And I would say with that, Mark.
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Another appeal
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is that your
church needs you too.
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Yeah. Yes.
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You know, there are
others who are going to have
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that same experience
and not come to Jesus maybe
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because of things in the church.
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And if you're not
there to help give
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a representation
of Jesus, who is.
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So don't give up on Jesus,
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and also don't
give up on your church.
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What your church needs
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most is a genuine
Christian and that might be you.
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Amen.
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I want to give a
brief, brief story.
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I heard a minister tell a story.
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He grew up in a
very violent home.
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Mom was a beat-up
every single night.
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It was horrible for him.
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Mom saw how hard it
was on him and it's dad.
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Dad is a monster,
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dad's caused all these problems.
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And one day she sits
him down and she says,
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"Son, I need to talk to you."
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And she says, "So and
so is not your father."
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And it's like the whole
world is turned upside down.
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"What do mean,
dad isn't my dad?"
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And she turns around
a picture in her hand,
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it's a teenage boy and she says,
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"This is your father.
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His name is so and so.
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And he never did
these things to me.
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He never hit me, he
never spoke to me like this.
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He was a teenager,
he was scared and he ran
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when I got pregnant, but
he never did these things."
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And my appeal to
the young people today
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is your father would
never do that to you.
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You may think that God endorses,
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that God was
involved in this, He's not.
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God doesn't do things like that.
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Now, He wasn't
a scared teenager,
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He's always been there for you.
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He's never not been there.
But He would never do this.
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This is your Father,
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and He only thinks
the best things about you
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and treats you
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as you would love to be treated.
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So thank you.
Thank you for joining us.
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You know, this is
definitely a big topic.
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It's definitely one
that affects a lot of people.
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And, again, we
just want to reiterate,
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stay close to God.
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Get in this Word.
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Yeah, and join us,
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