(Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and
girls. Welcome to Starting with
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Jesus where we want to encourage
you to start everything you do
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with Jesus. Today we are still
in that last week before Jesus's
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death and we're going to be
learning a little bit about a
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special service that Jesus had
with His disciples, but before
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we have our Bible story,
let's start with some singing.
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Hello boys and girls. Have you
ever wondered if the miracles
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that happened in Bible times
can still, happen today? (Miss
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Milca) This story takes place in
the south part of Venezuela. And
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there's a huge Indian population
and a lot of tribes there. A lot
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of stuff was going on down
there a lot of injustices to the
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Indians and finally people
down there went on protest. The
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government sent his soldiers.
Well, the soldiers decided that
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they wanted to take over and
attack a little village that is
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there called Maracha. Maracha
has an Adventist school and
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there's a lot of Seventh-day
Adventist Christians who live
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there. Well the people there
were so afraid because they
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didn't have anything to defend
themselves. So they went to the
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only One who can help us win,
and who is that? God, Jesus. So
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they went in prayer pleading to
God for their lives because they
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were were in danger. Well,
the day comes when the soldiers
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start approaching the village
and they're almost there at the
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entrance when they see the
tallest soldiers they had ever
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seen in their lives. Not only
the soldiers were tall but they
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were big and strong and
they had some guns that they had
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never seen in their lives. One
of the soldiers comes and lets
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them know that they cannot go
into the village because it is
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protected by many of them. So
the other soldiers turned around
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they leave but they don't give
up. They want to try to take
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over the village one more time.
So they tried to go towards the
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evening. And as they're
approaching the entrance, they
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see more soldiers who are very
tall and very strong with some
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guns that they cannot identify.
So they didn't even talk, they
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just turned around and left.
But they didn't want to give up.
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They said, Okay, we're going to
go through the entrance. Let's
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try another side, you know,
of this village and maybe we can
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get in. And the next day, they
tried that, but as they were
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approaching a thick, black cloud
comes down and blocks the way
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and they said that they cannot
see a thing. So you know what?
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They got so afraid they decided
to just go away. They don't want
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to mess up with this village
anymore and they left. Now I
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ask you a question. Do you think
the village was under a spell or
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witchcraft? Of course not. It
was God's power protecting His
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faithful ones there who were
pleading for their life. So do
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you think those miracles happen
today. Yes. This story that
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I'm just telling you happened
two years ago. So what happened
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in Bible times, all
those wonderful miracle stories
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can still happen today.
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(Miss Michelle) All right,
welcome back everybody. I'm so
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glad to see you. I wish I could
actually see you. That would be
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so cool wouldn't it? If we could
all sit down together and have a
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meal together. Wouldn't that be
really special? That's what our
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story's about today actually.
Thirteen people gathered around
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a table in an upper room in a
house inside Jerusalem. Can you
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guess what I'm describing.
That's right, the last supper.
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Let's pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, we praise
and thank you for being here
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with us, for sending your Holy
Spirit as you have promised to
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lead and guide us into all truth
Please be with us as we continue
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to talk about the events that
happened during the last week of
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your life on earth. In
your name we pray, Amen.
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Well if you've been following
along in the story we're to
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Thursday night of the last week
of Jesus's life on earth. Right?
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And we're going to pick up this
story in Luke. Now this special
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meal that we see the 13 people
sharing together, in our minds
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eye, of course, was one that the
Israelites celebrated every year
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And let's go to Luke 22. Luke,
let's see what Dr. Luke has to
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say, Luke chapter 22 verse 8:
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And He [capital He so that's
Jesus] said to Peter and John
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saying, Go and prepare the
Passover for us that we may eat.
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So they said to Him, where do
you want us to prepare? And He
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said to them, Behold, when
you have entered the city, a man
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will meet you carrying a pitcher
of water on his head. Follow him
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into the house which he enters.
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Oops, I added the head part. I
was just picturing that. It just
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says a pitcher of water. Maybe
he was carrying it on his head,
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maybe he had it under his arm.
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Following him into the house
that he enters. And you shall
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say to the Master of the house,
The teacher says to you, where
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is the guest room where I
may eat the Passover with my
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disciples. Then he will show you
a large furnished upper room.
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There make ready.
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I love it. This reminds me
of when He asked for the donkey.
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Doesn't it? It seems like such
an odd request and yet I'm sure
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that the guy will say,
Yes, here's the room. Right?
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Sure enough.
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So they went and found it
just as He had said to them. And
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they prepared the Passover.
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Wow! This is so exciting,
the Passover meal. Now this was
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celebrating the original
Passover. Do you remember when
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that was. The first Passover,
let's review that together.
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It happened many, many hundreds
of years before and that was the
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night that the Israelites were
freed from slavery and that was
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the night of the final plague,
the death of the firstborn son.
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But the Israelites knew that if
they put the blood of the lamb
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on the doorposts and the lintel
of their house that the angel of
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death would pass over that house
Now, of course, the lamb and the
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blood pointed forward to Jesus
and little did the disciples
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know that this Passover was the
last one that would meaningfully
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point forward to Jesus. Because
that very next day, on Friday,
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Jesus would be crucified as that
sacrificial lamb, the Passover
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lamb, the true lamb of God. And
as the disciples and Jesus ate
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this meal, they didn't have
to eat it in a quick manner like
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the Israelites did on their way
out of Egypt. Right? They could
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relax and rest and have a
special time to talk with each
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other and for Jesus to share
with them. Now Jesus though they
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noticed was different right now.
He was very sad and troubled.
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And the disciples were
definitely not ready for what
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was to come. They were still
vying for Jesus's attention and
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were jealous of each other and
they wanted the best of the best
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for themselves. Judas had pushed
his way all the way to be on the
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side of Jesus, right next to Him
on the left. Interesting if you
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remember last week when we
talked about the left and the
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right. And John the disciples,
often called the disciples whom
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Jesus loved, sat on the right
like the sheep. Right? As they
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sat down for the meal there
should have been a servant there
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to wash their feet. Now their
feet got super gross because
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they did not have the sanitary
practices that we have today.
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So often waste, animal waste and
human waste and junk would just
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be in the street and then they
would walk through it with their
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sandals and it would be really
gross. One of the disciples
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should have realized, Oh wow,
there's no servant here. I'm a
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disciples of Jesus. I should
be the one to do this. Somebody
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must wash their feet and yet
they didn't. This was Jesus's
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chance to teach them a huge
lesson in humility. So Jesus
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took a towel and He took His
outer garment off, His robe, and
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He took the towel and He wrapped
it around his waist and He took
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a basin of water and He knelt
down and He started washing the
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disciples' feet and drying them
on the towel around His waist.
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Oh my! You can imagine the
disciples' surprise and then
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horror to realize that their
Lord and teacher was washing
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their feet. Oh my! They should
be the ones doing that. Right?
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And Jesus did that for them.
It says in John, and all of the
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gospels talk about the events in
the last week of Jesus's life.
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But we're going to go to John
now. Jump over to John 13 verses
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3-5 where it talks about Jesus
washing the disciples feet.
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Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into His
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hands and that He had come from
God and was going back to God,
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rose from supper and laid aside
His garments, took a towel and
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girded Himself. After that
He poured water into a basin and
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began to wash the disciples'
feet and to wipe them with the
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towel which He had girded
Himself about His waist. Then He
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came to Simon Peter and Peter
said to Him, [you know Peter
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always had something to say
didn't he, Haha, yes he did]
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Lord, are you washing my feet?
[Obvious question] And Jesus
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said to him, What I am doing you
do not understand now but you
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will know after this. And Peter
said to Him, You shall never
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wash my feet! [No] Jesus
answered him, If I do not wash
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you, you will have no part with
me. Simon Peter said to Him, Oh
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Lord, not only my feet, also
my hands, my head. [He was ready
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for a full on shower, wasn't he]
And Jesus said to him, he who
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has bathed needs only to
wash his feet, but is completely
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clean. And you are
clean but not all of you.
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Dun, dun, dun. Everyone looked
around the room. Well who of us
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is not clean? Jesus washed
all of our feet. Hmm. Jesus even
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washing Judas' feet didn't He.
Judas had already, and He knew
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Jesus had known this already.
Judas had already gone to the
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priests and rulers a couple of
times and he had already agreed
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to set Jesus up, to help them
to get Jesus and yet he also
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cleaned Judas's feet. And Judas,
as his Lord and Savior knelt by
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him and washed his feet he
almost changed his heart. But
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pride got in the way. Let's
continue reading. Oh, we read
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that about Peter already. Peter
loved Jesus so much and he had a
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good heart and he wanted to
change but he didn't realize he
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couldn't do it by himself.
Foot washing service is such a
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special service that represents
kind of like a mini baptism and
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forgiveness and humility and
clean hearts and being a servant
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to each other. It's such a
special service and here in the
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U.S. we celebrate the
foot washing service one time a
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quarter. Not quite sure where
that tradition came from but
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Passover is one time a year, we
get to do it four times a year.
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So it's such a special thing.
And they continued there with
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the foot washing service. This
is something that Jesus asked us
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to do. And He says:
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If I then, your Lord and Teacher
have washed your feet, you also
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ought to wash one another's feet
for I have given you an example
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that you should do as I have
done to you. Most assuredly I
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say to you, A servant is not
greater than his master nor is
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he who is sent greater than he
who sent him. If you know these
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things blessed are
you if you do them.
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He asks us to continue this
ceremony. So on the night where
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Passover was going to change
completely the next day, right,
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He gave is a new ceremony that
we could continue to celebrate
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to remember Him. Now the new
ceremony consisted of the foot
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washing but then it also had
the communion service and the
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communion service had elements
of what they already celebrated
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with Passover as well melded
together and it was very special
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Let's jump back to Matthew.
Jesus took the cup after supper
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and He started a new tradition
for them. Well let's start with
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bread actually. Okay. So
He took... And remember at the
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Passover time they had bread
without yeast because yeast
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represented sin. So it was flat
bread. This is called matzah
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which is the Passover bread.
And this is what Jesus said in
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Matthew 26 verse 26:
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And after they were done eating
Jesus took the bread and blessed
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and broke it and gave it to His
disciples and He said, Take, eat
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this is my body broken for you.
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This is really cool about the
matzah bread. You see the holes,
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just like the holes that were
to be in Jesus's hands and the
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stripes just like the stripes
from the whip on His back.
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There is a lot of symbolism in
this bread. And then He took the
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cup. Here I have a bottle here.
He took the bottle and He poured
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it into the cup and He took the
cup after supper and He said:
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He gave thanks and He said drink
from it, all of you, for this is
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my blood, the blood of the new
covenant which was shed for many
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for the remission of sins. But I
say to you, I will not drink of
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the fruit of the vine from now
until the day in which I drink
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it with you, new with
you, in my Father's kingdom.
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What special symbolism. Now
sometimes some people believe
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that when Jesus said, This is my
body, they believe in something
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called transubstantiation. It's
a really big word and what that
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means is that when the pastor
blesses this that it actually
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becomes Jesus's body. Now just
saying that out loud, we don't
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believe that that's what the
Bible is saying here. We believe
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that this represents Jesus's
body broken for us and when we
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break it with our teeth that
it's like our sins are breaking
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Jesus on the cross. Right?
So we don't believe that this is
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actually Jesus's body. We
believe it represents or it's a
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symbol for Jesus's body. And
some believe that this actually
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becomes His blood which we don't
believe in that. It's almost
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like magic. Right? And we don't
believe in that. But we believe
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that this is representing or
a symbol for His blood that He
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shed for us. The other
thing that we believe is that we
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believe that this is grape juice
and that it's not fermented,
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because we know what Jesus has
said through His servant Solomon
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that wine is a mocker.
Right? Wine and strong drink is
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raging. It makes us make really
bad choices so there's no reason
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who Jesus would have partaken in
that with His disciples. So this
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is just pure grape juice.
Squeeze the grapes and that's
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the grape juice. That's such a
special ceremony that Jesus has
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set up for us to learn.
Then actually during the supper
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Jesus announced in a way that
Judas was the one that would
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betray Him by saying whoever
dips in this with me and eats is
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one. And Judas did. And the
disciples were shocked. They
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couldn't believe it. And Judas
went out to do the thing that he
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was going to do which was
to betray Jesus, his Lord and
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Savior. Judas hurried to betray
Jesus and he already had the 30
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pieces of silver that the
priests had given him. Judas may
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have thought that this would
have happened anyway. Or he
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thought well maybe if I force
Jesus to save himself maybe
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He'll become the king that I
want Him to be. But we know that
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that wasn't true. That night,
that Passover night that they
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celebrated Jesus showed us a new
ceremony that we can celebrate.
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Now myself, I actually have
a really fun Bible study group
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that I'm a part of and we've
actually celebrated what Jesus
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would have celebrated Passover
as. And it's really fun to learn
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about the history of that. Not
that I think that we need to do
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that to be saved. No I don't
think that. But I think it's
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really cool to understand
the symbolism behind it and most
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importantly it's important to
understand what Jesus did for us
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and what the symbols of
communion, what we call Passover
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now mean to us. Jesus loved you
so much that He gave His life
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for you.
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Thank you Miss Michelle for that
story. We had some questions
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from last week. We're going to
look at those answers and then
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we'll have some more questions
for this week. So let's see what
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those answers were for last week
and who answered those questions
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and sent in their answers.
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It's time now for our
new questions. Question #1:
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Questions #2:
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And when we do communion today
we do a foot washing, so what
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does that represent?
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Question #3:
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What did the Passover itself
represent and why did the Jews
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celebrate. What were
they celebrating it for?
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Now you can send
your answers to us at:
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answers@startingwithjesus.com
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The memory verse for today
is found in John 13 verse 15:
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For I have given you an example
that you should do as I have
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done to you.
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Hey guys, we are going to make
some crackers today and I am so
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glad that you joined us. We are
going to use flour and sugar and
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salt, a little bit of oil and
some water. This recipe comes
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from the Pioneer Woman.
We'll put a link of it in the
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description box below so you
can go and make these exact same
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crackers. Now what's so neat
about these crackers is that you
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can add different things to it
to make it really yummy. So boys
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what did we add today? Do you
remember? Seasoning. Seasonings.
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I actually sprinkled some onion
powder over it. We put some
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pumpkin seeds and some sesame
seeds and what else did we do?
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We did sunflower seeds. That's
your favorite. Right? Yeah.
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Sunflower seeds. And so we put
them on top and it was so good.
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So we are going to make this
with you, today and I hope you
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get to try it at home. Let's
go ahead and get started. We are
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going to get started with 3
cups of all-purpose flour. Now I
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decided I wanted it a little
healthier so I did 2 cups of the
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white flour and 1 cup of whole
wheat. So that's what's in this
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bowl right here and we're going
to add it to our mixing bowl. So
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Micah, can you pour it in for
us? Now they recommend sifting
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it and you can sift the flour.
It'll make it lighter and it'll
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make it fluffier and the
crackers lighter. So if you want
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to do that, that is fine.
I don't have a sifter with me
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right now and so this is what
we're going to do. Now the next
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thing that we're going to
put in is 2 teaspoons of sugar.
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We're using white sugar. You
could use brown sugar, any kind
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of sweetener and then add _
into this one. Then we're going
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do 2-1/2 teaspoons of salt. Now
that might seem like a lot of
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salt but once we baked it, it
tasted just fine. If your family
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doesn't like to do a lot of salt
you can put less salt in. That's
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totally fine. Okay, now what
we're going to do is we're going
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do is we're going to mix this
together and then once we mix
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this together then we'll add
our wet ingredients. So let's go
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ahead and start mixing.
Now we're going to add our wet
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ingredients; so we're
going to add 1 cup of water and
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4 tablespoons of fat. It can
be olive oil, it could be melted
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butter, it could be melted
coconut oil. There's different
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things that you can use for
a fat. We're using olive oil.
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All right, we have divided out
dough into two separate parts
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and what we're going to do
is flour the surface to put some
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flour down and then we're going
to roll it out really nice and
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thin. We want it about an 1/8th
of an inch. The thinner it is
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the crispier your cracker will
be. The thicker it is the more
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chewy it'll be. We also want
to make sure that we turn on our
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oven and get it warmed up to
450 degrees. So let's go ahead
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and do that and then we'll roll
out our dough. Okay. We got it
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all rolled out and now we are
ready to add the toppings if you
00:25:49.64\00:25:54.82
want. What we want to do is
we're going to take a little bit
00:25:54.85\00:25:57.42
of olive oil and a brush and
we're going to start brushing on
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the olive oil on top, just
lightly. Just a little bit so
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that it kind of toasts it and
makes it nice and crispy. And
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then you can add whatever
toppings you want. If you want
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to do what we're doing, we're
going to make on batch plain
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just regular and then the other
batch we're going to add our
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seeds and it's going to be
really, really yummy. All right,
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our oven is ready; the beep just
told me that it's ready. Our
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crackers have their topping on
it and now we're about to put it
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in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Something I didn't tell you was
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we need to poke it with a fork.
Now when you poke it with a fork
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it keeps it from bubbling
up and having bubbles in it.
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All right, we got it all done.
Some of them got a little too
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dark, but we have them, and they
are finished. We have our seed
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crackers and our just regular.
So, until next time I hope you
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guys are able to make
these crackers and that you'll
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enjoy them as much as we do.
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Thank you so much for joining
us today. I'm so glad you have
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joined us and I hope that you're
thinking about these stories
00:27:18.93\00:27:22.10
throughout the week, and that
you're meditating on them and
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that you're spending your daily
time with Jesus. You know we
00:27:25.97\00:27:28.51
have a podcast that can help you
spend that daily time with Jesus
00:27:28.54\00:27:31.38
If you go to:
startingwithjesus.come/seedpod
00:27:31.41\00:27:34.52
you'll be able to see our daily
podcast programs that you can
00:27:34.55\00:27:42.22
listen to and spend that daily
time with Jesus. Let's pray
00:27:42.26\00:27:47.53
together.
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Our Father in heaven, thank you
so much that you came down here
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to be an example to us, that
you lived your life as a perfect
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example of what we should be
like. That you were willing to
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be a servant when no one else
was. I pray that you will help
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us to be like you that our
choices that we make every day
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will be choices that you would
make. And we love you. And we
00:28:09.75\00:28:13.56
pray this in your
name, Jesus' name, Amen.
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Thanks so much for joining
us. Have a blessed week and keep
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in touch.
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