I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and
welcome to another 3ABN
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Today Family Worship.
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We are so grateful
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that you have
joined us this evening.
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Happy Sabbath to you.
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How's your week been?
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I'm sure busy, just
like us here at 3ABN.
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What a blessing to be able
to spend these precious hours
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with our Lord Jesus
Christ during the Sabbath hours.
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And I don't know if
you're with family there,
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and maybe your living room,
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some part of the
world we don't know.
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But, or maybe
you're by yourself,
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but you are part of our family.
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And we're here worshiping
God together with you.
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I always look forward to
these family worship times.
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Me too, because it's
a time we get to unplug,
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and we get to open
up the Word of God.
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That's true.
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We unplug as it were,
from the busyness of the week,
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from the things that take place.
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We open up God's Word,
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spend time in prayer with family
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and you at home are
part of our3ABN family.
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So just know that we love you,
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and that we pray
for you all the time.
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But here tonight with us,
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we always say we have
part of our 3ABN family here
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and that is true, but tonight
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I actually had my
real family here, so...
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That's awesome.
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This is mine, one
of my nephew's, Caleb.
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So, Caleb, we're
so glad you're here.
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Are you glad to be here?
Or are you kind of scared?
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Yes, I'm very glad.
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You're very glad.
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Okay.
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So, tell me how old you are?
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Eight. You're eight.
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Oh, I'm so glad.
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You don't get to come to
see Uncle Greg and Aunty Jill,
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too much here, do you?
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No, I don't know. No.
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So this is a treat
when you get to be here.
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Yes, it is.
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It is for me too.
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So we have the
rest of the family here
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we're going to introduce.
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Next to me is Jonathan.
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And, Jonathan,
tell us how old you are?
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I'm 12.
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Oh, and you're gonna
have a birthday soon?
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Yes. Yay!
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So you're almost a teenager?
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Yeah.
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That means he might be
driving soon, Uncle Greg.
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Yeah, that's true.
Yup, it'll be really fun.
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And you are the oldest
of how many in your family?
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Four. Four boys.
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Okay, yeah. That's right.
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And once we
introduce the rest of them,
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and then we'll talk some more.
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We have over here, Steven.
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That's a good wave.
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Tell us how old
you are, Stephen?
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I am 11.
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Eleven? Just turned 11.
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Yeah. Fantastic.
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That's exciting.
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And then we got to
introduce the mommy and daddy,
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which is my sister,
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Lynn Popescu and
her husband Florin,
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and it's just such a
joy to have you guys here.
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Thank you so much for having us.
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We're enjoying our time.
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Yes. And sitting on your lap.
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What's your name?
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Joshua. Joshua.
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So how old are you, Joshua?
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I'm six.
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Are you six?
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So Jonathan's the oldest.
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So does that mean,
you're next oldest?
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No.
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So what's the
order? So who's the oldest?
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Jonathan. And then who?
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Stephen. Stephen.
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And then who?
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Caleb, and then me.
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That's right. Good job.
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Yeah, it's a blessing
spending time with family.
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It is.
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You don't wanna
forget mom and dad.
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We won't forget mom and dad.
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Without mom and dad,
none of us would be here.
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You guys wouldn't
be here, that's right.
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Yeah, that's right.
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So, my dad Dr. Jim
Penny, and his wife Kathy,
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but we just
call you mom and dad,
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and it's just such a
joy to have you guys here.
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And grandma, and grandpa. Yes.
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That's grandma
and grandpa. Okay.
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You know, I call
them mom and dad too.
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You know, it not
like, it's my in-laws.
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No. This is my mom and dad too.
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So I've gained
another set of parents.
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And we gained a son,
where we only had daughters.
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Then you got another son too.
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You got Florin, so, yeah.
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And all the grandsons.
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That's right. Yeah, that's true.
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A lot of boys and, I
do some exercise at home,
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but when they come
here, or when I go there.
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I exercise like I've
never exercised, right?
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What did we play here recently?
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We ran around the yard.
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What did we play? We played...
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Tag. Tag and...
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Nerf battles.
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That's right.
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Did Uncle Greg run very fast?
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Yeah. Yeah, you were real fast.
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But, we won't
talk about Aunty Jill.
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I just want to say that, okay.
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Actually, all of the boys
at this table can catch me.
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So, Lynn, there's
just the two of us.
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We don't have any
other brothers and sisters.
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Talk to us just a little
bit about where you guys live,
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and what life is like for you?
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Well, we live in North Carolina,
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in Central North Carolina.
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We've lived there
for the past 17 years.
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Built a house there,
just before Jonathan was born,
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we moved into it.
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And I'm a former teacher,
and now I'm home with the boys.
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I'm homeschooling them.
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My husband, Florin is a nurse,
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and works at the
local emergency department,
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in the level one trauma center.
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So what's that
like for you, Florin,
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working there as a nurse?
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Very busy, but you have
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a lot of opportunities
to share God's love and,
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you know, to healing hands
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and also it's a
joy to see people,
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like, when they come
almost in the dead bed,
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you know, see them later,
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being able to walk
in better condition.
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Because when you
are at level one trauma,
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that's like some of
the high end emergencies
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that you guys see, and it's,
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I mean, what a way
to, like, as you stated,
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to be able to reach out.
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Because you also have family,
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they're also
rushing in to the hospital
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concerned about
their loved ones.
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Now we've known
Florin for a while,
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because we went to
school together too.
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We did.
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So, Florin, I'm not
trying to put our age,
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but we've known
each other quite a while.
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And here we ended
up marrying sisters.
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And so now we're
related through marriage,
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what a blessing that is,
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but we've known
each other for a while,
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and I know you love the Lord,
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and you like
sharing the Word too.
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Because I've been,
when we visited you guys,
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you liked to also
get up and preach.
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Absolutely.
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As you get the opportunity
to, so what a blessing.
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Amen.
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And so mom and dad,
tell us where you're from?
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Well, kind of all
over, because Lynn,
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we kind of grew up in
many different places?
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I'm originally
from Massachusetts.
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Once we got married,
we moved several times.
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Because you were a teacher?
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Because I was a
teacher at that time.
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For the church. Yeah.
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And then I went to
chiropractic school,
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and became a chiropractor,
and did that for 25 years.
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I've retired from that now.
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And living in
Massachusetts, at this point.
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Yeah. Amen.
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And, Mom, you all have
been involved for many years
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with the church plant?
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Yes. Yes.
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What is that like?
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It's been very rewarding.
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And what is a church plant,
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because someone
may be just joining us,
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to say, oh, a church plant.
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What's that?
Where's a church plant?
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We went to a town
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that had no
Seventh-day Adventist presence.
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We had a member,
one of our friends
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who lived in the town
and she very much wanted
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the Seventh-day
Adventist Church in her town.
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So we joined with her.
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And through the years,
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and we have a
little church there,
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with people coming.
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I've helped in this,
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with the children's
Sabbath School department,
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but there's nothing like
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growing your own spiritual life.
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You know, when we
share it with others...
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Oh, yeah.
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It has helped dad
and I grow so much.
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Yes. Amen.
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It's been a
real blessing for us,
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as we reach out for others.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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What a wonderful, to
me, whatever God gives us,
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wherever we live,
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God calls us to witness for Him.
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So whether it's church
planting in a dark county,
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or whether it's working in
the hospital with patients,
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or being at home, you know,
all of that is missionary work.
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So whatever God
has called you to do,
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wherever He has placed you,
get busy doing the Lord's work.
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Let's...
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Yeah, we're
going to be talking...
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What are we talking about
tonight as far as our topic,
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and we need to have a prayer...
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Yes.
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Sing some
songs, and we hope that
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you're not just watching TV.
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Well, we are glad
you're watching TV.
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What we want you to be doing is,
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getting your Bible
out, getting some paper out,
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getting a pen because
we're worshiping together.
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So we want you to
sing along with us.
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But what is our
topic, this evening?
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This is a fun story.
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Our topic
tonight is facing giants.
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So you probably
know where we're going.
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We're going to talk about
the story of David and Goliath.
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And we got a great
song to go with that too.
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But we all face
giants of one sort
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or another in our lives.
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We might not be armored
up like, Goliath or David,
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but we all have
something that we face.
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So, God has precious
promises in His Word,
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and ways that we can seek
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to deal with those
giants in our lives.
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Oh, that's really true.
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So shall we sing a song
first or should we pray?
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Let's pray, yeah.
Okay, yep, let's pray.
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Father in heaven, Lord,
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we thank You for
the Sabbath hours.
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Thank You that we
can come and worship You.
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We thank You for
bringing us through this week.
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And, Father, we thank You
that we know You are strongest,
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and as we have giants
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or different
trials in our lives.
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Father, we know
we can turn to You
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because You have
all the solutions.
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Lord, we thank
You and we love You,
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in His name we pray, amen.
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Amen.
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And we have Miss
Summer on the piano,
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and we're going to
sing only a boy named David.
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Are you boys ready
with all your hand motions?
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Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay.
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Only a boy named
David Only a little sling
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Only a boy named David
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But he could pray and sing
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Only a boy named David
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Only a rippling brook
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Only a boy named David
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But five little stones he took
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And one little
stone went in the sling
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And the sling
went round and round
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And one little
stone went in the sling
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And the sling went
round and round And round
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and round And
round and round And round
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and round and round And one
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little stone went up in the air
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And the giant came tumbling down
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That's a fun song.
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Almost felt like
falling on the floor.
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I did almost. That's right.
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So, at home, open up your Bibles
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to 1 Samuel Chapter 17.
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We're gonna have
the boys tell the story,
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but if you want to follow
along 1 Samuel Chapter 17,
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has a story of
David and Goliath.
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So, Jonathan,
we'll start with you.
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And then we'll
go to you, Stephen.
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Jonathan, tell
us, who was Goliath?
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And tell us who
started the story?
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Goliath was a giant.
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He was very tall.
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The Israelites
were afraid of him.
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He was from Gath.
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And he taunted the
Israelites for 40 days.
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One day David came
to the camp of Israel
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to bring food to his brothers.
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And he saw Goliath.
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He was not afraid of Goliath.
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He was very courageous.
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He knew God was with him.
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Wow.
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So, how tall?
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Does anyone
know how tall he was?
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You said, he was
a giant, Goliath.
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How tall was he?
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He was really...
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Is he as tall, as
tall as Uncle Greg?
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No, he was taller than you.
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Was he as tall as daddy?
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No. No.
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I looked in the
commentary actually.
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And it said 11 feet,
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whether that's a nine
and a half to 11 feet.
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Wow.
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So you could average
that and say 10 feet.
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So, and I'm
thinking 10 feet here.
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At least in the United
States, they play basketball.
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Around the world,
they do basketball.
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They say that goal that
you throw the ball through.
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How tall is that?
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Ten feet.
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The rim is ten feet.
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Wow. That's a tall guy.
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Wow. He is pretty tall.
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So he was taunting, you said,
taunting the Israelites, right?
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Yes.
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So what does it mean,
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when he was
taunting the Israelites?
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What was he
telling the Israelites?
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He was basically mocking them.
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He was mocking them,
and why was he mocking them?
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What was he saying about them?
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He was saying that
their God was weak,
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and that they were weak and...
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Yeah, he did.
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So what happened next, Stephen?
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So, then David
went to King Saul,
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and asked him if he
could fight Goliath.
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Goliath said...
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I mean, Saul said, okay.
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But, he said, take my armor.
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So, when David put the armor on.
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It was way too small
for, I mean, big for him.
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David was a smaller guy.
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And then he said, he
can't take the armor.
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So then he went down,
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and he got stones
from the river, five,
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and then he put them
in his shepherd's bag,
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and then he went
and fought Goliath.
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Put a stone?
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Put a stone in his
sling, then threw it at Goliath,
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hit him in the forehead.
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It's incredible.
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It's a miracle, isn't it? Yes.
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So, what did David do
for work, we could say?
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He was a shepherd boy.
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He was a shepherd. Yeah.
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So, was he used
to fighting giants?
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No.
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No, but had he
had any experience?
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Had he done any fighting before?
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Yes.
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So who had he fought before?
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He had fought bears and lions.
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So he had some experience
already, right, in fighting?
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Yes.
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Do you think he was scared?
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No. No?
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Because God was with him.
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That's good.
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Sometimes though,
you can be scared,
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even though you
know God is with you.
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I'd be a little scared.
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But he knew that God
would, like you said, Caleb,
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was with him and
would help him win.
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Yeah, that's true.
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I'm going back to
something you said, Stephen.
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You said that Saul wanted
him to put on the king's armor.
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Yeah. Yes.
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And it was too heavy?
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Yes. Too big?
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Wouldn't be scary, because
armor supposed to do what?
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Protect you. Joshua?
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What's armor supposed to do?
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You put all the
armor on, you put a helmet
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and you got a big sword.
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You got all these things
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to protect you that's, that's...
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Armor.
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It's armor,
yes. It protects you.
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It does protect you.
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So do you
think, David was scared
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to take off all this armor?
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He wasn't. He
wasn't scared, was he?
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Yeah.
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Why do you think
he wasn't scared?
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Do any of you know?
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Because you would think,
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you'd want armor
on to protect you.
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Because He knew
that God was with him.
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Yeah.
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I see that Saul
trusted in his...
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Saul put his trust in
the armor to protect him,
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but David put his
trust in God to protect him.
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Oh, that's good.
00:16:05.03\00:16:06.36
Yeah, that is a
really good point.
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There's a scripture,
I really liked this one,
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I was reading it,
actually, this morning.
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If we're in 1 Samuel.
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This is what David
said to the Philistine
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because you had said, Jonathan,
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and then Caleb, that
Goliath had mocked, right?
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Yes.
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The children of
Israel, and the Israelite army,
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Goliath had mocked them.
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And so David said,"
I can't have God's name
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or God's
character being dishonored."
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It's true.
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And so we're in 1
Samuel, Florin or Lynn,
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do you have that, do
you want to read that?
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1 Samuel 17:45-47.
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It gives us what
David said to Goliath.
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45 to 47? Yeah.
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"Then David said
to the Philistine,
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'You come to me with a sword,
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with a spear,
and with the javelin.
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But I come to you in the
name of the Lord of hosts,
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the God of the armies of Israel,
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whom you have defiled.
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This day, the Lord will
deliver you into my hand,
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and I will strike you,
and take your head from you.
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And this day I
will give the carcasses
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to the camp of the Philistines,
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to the birds of the air,
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and the wild
beasts of the earth,
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that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel.
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Then all this
assembly shall know,
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that the Lord does not
save with sword and spear,
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for the battle is the Lord's
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and He will give
you into our hands.'
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" So, Sis, why do you
think, David had such confidence
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that God would
deliver Goliath into his hand?
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It's obvious.
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He had great
faith and trust in God.
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His belief in God
was firm, it was strong,
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and he believed that
God would fight for him.
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Also, I think that,
David realized that,
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what was at stake was not
his life or his reputation,
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but was God's reputation.
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And he was willing
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to put his life on
line for God's reputation.
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Yeah, now that's
really powerful actually.
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So he was really,
yeah, he was thinking of God.
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He wasn't thinking of himself.
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No. Yeah.
00:18:14.99\00:18:16.32
He wasn't
saying, okay, this guy,
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I'm just going to go get
him just because I want to,
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and he's making fun of me.
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Yeah, I like that.
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So can we do
that in our own lives?
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Well, he had
proved God before...
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I like that.
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When he said, you
couldn't take Saul's armor,
00:18:29.67\00:18:33.88
he says, for I
have not proved to them.
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He had not, he had no experience
00:18:36.34\00:18:38.51
or proof of
Saul's armor helping him.
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But he had
proved God in the past
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with the bear and the lion.
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And so, he knew
he would go for it,
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because he already
had that, like Lynn, said,
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that faith, that
trust, that he had proved God,
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and God had been there for him.
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Absolutely.
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Dad, you have any
insight into that verse?
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Just that, each one of us,
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through our
experiences in life are,
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are challenged.
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And when we are challenged,
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we have the opportunity
to either turn towards God,
00:19:13.42\00:19:18.15
or to rely on our own resources.
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When we rely on
our own resources,
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usually things turn out badly.
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But when we rely on the Lord,
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we know that
things will turn out
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the way He wants them to.
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They may be good or bad,
the way the world looks at it.
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But, whatever happens,
00:19:41.08\00:19:42.98
we know that
God is there for us,
00:19:43.01\00:19:47.08
and when we have
those experiences
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that are positive,
00:19:48.78\00:19:50.69
that things turn
out well from the past.
00:19:50.72\00:19:56.06
Like David, with
the bear and the lion.
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He knew that God
would be with him
00:20:00.70\00:20:04.47
when he was
facing this new giant,
00:20:04.50\00:20:07.97
because this new giant
had defied God directly.
00:20:08.00\00:20:12.21
Absolutely.
00:20:12.24\00:20:13.88
Don't you think
when we walk with God,
00:20:13.91\00:20:16.95
and having
experience with Him in the past,
00:20:16.98\00:20:19.18
then that gives
you faith and hope
00:20:19.21\00:20:20.78
and courage for the future,
00:20:20.82\00:20:22.15
knowing what
God has done before.
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Then you say, okay, like
you said, I've proved him.
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I've seen this.
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And then this is how
I can see in the future.
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So, this is a question we
haven't talked about, boys.
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So this is
putting you on the spot.
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Is there any other Bible
story that you can think of,
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anyone else in the Bible
who had to fight a battle?
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Or who had some sort of,
like David had a Goliath,
00:20:42.54\00:20:46.74
who was his giant.
00:20:46.78\00:20:48.11
It was a battle
that he had to fight.
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But can you think of
anyone else in the Bible
00:20:50.18\00:20:52.38
who had to fight a battle?
00:20:52.41\00:20:55.35
Yes, I can think of Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego...
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Well, that's good.
00:20:59.52\00:21:00.86
When they had to bow
down before this statue,
00:21:00.89\00:21:03.12
they had a choice to
make, either to follow God,
00:21:03.16\00:21:06.39
or to worship other gods.
00:21:06.43\00:21:08.73
So they had a battle.
00:21:08.76\00:21:11.13
Oh, that's really
good. They did have a battle.
00:21:11.17\00:21:12.70
Absolutely. Can you imagine?
00:21:12.73\00:21:14.07
That's a really good
example, Jonathan, because,
00:21:14.10\00:21:15.57
okay, so you're on
the, on that big plain.
00:21:15.60\00:21:17.84
There's lots of
people out there,
00:21:17.87\00:21:19.21
you're on a big
field, I should say.
00:21:19.24\00:21:20.58
And there's a lots
of people out there
00:21:20.61\00:21:22.48
and you're the only
ones standing, right?
00:21:22.51\00:21:25.38
Yeah.
00:21:25.41\00:21:26.92
Have you ever
been in a situation
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.28
where all your
friends are doing one thing?
00:21:28.32\00:21:30.95
And you know, because God
doesn't want you to do that.
00:21:30.99\00:21:34.16
So you're the only one standing?
00:21:34.19\00:21:36.06
Have you been in a
situation like that?
00:21:36.09\00:21:38.36
Where someone else is
doing it and you know,
00:21:38.39\00:21:39.73
it's wrong and you don't do it?
00:21:39.76\00:21:42.90
It's a tough situation to be in.
00:21:42.93\00:21:45.47
Have you been in
that situation, Florin?
00:21:45.50\00:21:49.24
No.
00:21:49.27\00:21:50.61
It's tough when you have to
actually be the one at times
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.81
to just be the
one, you feel all alone.
00:21:52.84\00:21:55.31
But you're not all alone
because who was with them?
00:21:55.34\00:21:57.65
God was with them.
00:21:57.68\00:21:59.01
Yes, because Jesus showed up
in the fiery furnace with them.
00:21:59.05\00:22:01.98
He sure did. Yes.
00:22:02.02\00:22:03.35
That's a great
example, Jonathan.
00:22:03.39\00:22:04.72
That is a good example.
00:22:04.75\00:22:06.09
Any of the rest of you boys,
00:22:06.12\00:22:07.46
think of any
battles in the Bible?
00:22:07.49\00:22:09.12
That was a good one, Jonathan.
00:22:09.16\00:22:11.36
Can you think of any, Joshua?
00:22:11.39\00:22:12.96
Joshua.
00:22:12.99\00:22:14.43
Yeah, Joshua.
00:22:14.46\00:22:15.80
So when did he have a battle?
Joshua, yeah, that's your name.
00:22:15.83\00:22:19.30
Joshua and Caleb both.
Exactly, and yours too.
00:22:19.33\00:22:21.27
So, Caleb, tell us when
the Joshua have a battle?
00:22:21.30\00:22:25.91
He had a problem.
00:22:25.94\00:22:28.51
I mean, Jericho was one
of the strongest cities.
00:22:28.54\00:22:34.12
And that's the
day he had to defeat
00:22:34.15\00:22:39.35
to get to the Promised Land.
00:22:39.39\00:22:42.39
Yes, that's right.
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.56
And how did they do that?
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Did they go in with
their bows and arrows and...?
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No.
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They marched
around for seven days,
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and on the seventh day,
they march around seven times.
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Then they blew their trumpets,
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and the walls
came tumbling down.
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Yes, that's right.
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So in that case, what happened?
00:23:05.45\00:23:07.18
God fought, right? Yes.
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Would you say God fought?
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And God caused the
walls to come down?
00:23:10.02\00:23:11.42
Yes.
00:23:11.45\00:23:12.79
So, Jonathan, in
your case, God fought too,
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because He showed up in the fire
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and kept them
from being destroyed.
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That's right. Yeah.
00:23:17.06\00:23:18.76
Stephen or Joshua,
you have a battle story?
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Anything in the Bible?
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Gideon.
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Gideon.
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Gideon's a good one.
Yeah, that's a good one.
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So...
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What's the story of
Gideon? What battle did he have?
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So, one day when he was
hiding from the Midianites
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and threshing wheat.
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He, um, God came
to him and told him
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that you are to
fight the Midianites,
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but he wasn't
sure, so he told him.
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So he went and got food
and then he put it on a rock.
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And then God set the rock,
I mean, the food on fire...
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Wow.
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And then He disappeared,
00:24:02.50\00:24:04.91
and then that
was one of the signs.
00:24:04.94\00:24:07.58
And then Gideon
still wasn't sure.
00:24:07.61\00:24:10.78
So then he told God,
if I put this fleece down,
00:24:10.81\00:24:18.12
then in the
morning, it will have,
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it will not be wet,
00:24:21.62\00:24:22.96
but the ground
around it will be wet.
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Oh, wow.
00:24:25.73\00:24:27.10
And then he tells him.
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So the next morning...
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Next morning. Was it that way?
00:24:30.33\00:24:31.67
Yes. So the ground was wet.
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Yes. And the fleece was dry.
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Yes. Did Gideon believe?
00:24:34.44\00:24:35.77
Not quite yet.
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He had another test,
and then he believed.
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What was the other test?
00:24:39.74\00:24:41.08
So he did the...
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So, he told God,
this time with the fleece.
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Have the fleece be
wet, but not the ground.
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Oh, wow.
00:24:49.32\00:24:50.65
And how was it the next morning?
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It was as.
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The ground was dry? Yep.
00:24:53.42\00:24:54.89
And the fleece was?
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.26
Wet.
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So then, did
Gideon believe then?
00:24:57.69\00:24:59.33
Yes. Okay.
00:24:59.36\00:25:00.70
They gathered an army,
00:25:00.73\00:25:02.30
and then God
said it was too much.
00:25:02.33\00:25:04.73
Why do you? Let's
stop a second, Stephen.
00:25:04.77\00:25:06.50
Why do you boys think,
00:25:06.53\00:25:07.87
God said it was too many people?
00:25:07.90\00:25:09.90
Why didn't He say, oh yay,
so many people want to fight,
00:25:09.94\00:25:13.34
and this is a good thing.
00:25:13.38\00:25:14.71
Why did He say it
was too many people?
00:25:14.74\00:25:16.61
Because, I think,
it's because the Israelites
00:25:16.64\00:25:19.48
would be all
boastful and they'd be like,
00:25:19.51\00:25:22.75
yay, we won, we
didn't need God's help.
00:25:22.78\00:25:25.89
We had so many men,
00:25:25.92\00:25:28.16
so God just did it
to get the army smaller,
00:25:28.19\00:25:32.39
so then there was no
way, if God wasn't with them,
00:25:32.43\00:25:35.03
they could defeat them.
00:25:35.06\00:25:36.40
Yes, absolutely.
00:25:36.43\00:25:38.97
So what happened at
the end of the story then?
00:25:39.00\00:25:40.70
Too many people.
00:25:40.74\00:25:42.07
So there aren't too many people.
00:25:42.10\00:25:43.44
Then what happened next?
00:25:43.47\00:25:44.81
And then, God
told him after that.
00:25:44.84\00:25:48.61
He told him he
still had too much.
00:25:48.64\00:25:52.98
And then they
went down to a river.
00:25:53.01\00:25:55.38
And then He said
anyone that, what was it?
00:25:55.42\00:26:00.06
Like, that drinks like this.
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That's correct.
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.19
Don't go with him. Yeah.
00:26:04.23\00:26:06.06
So, and then
after that, only 300.
00:26:06.09\00:26:09.16
Yeah.
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.53
He only had 300 men? Yes.
00:26:10.57\00:26:12.37
That's not very many
people to fight a huge army.
00:26:12.40\00:26:14.64
I don't remember
the number of the army.
00:26:14.67\00:26:16.00
Do you remember how
many were in the army
00:26:16.04\00:26:17.37
that they were fighting?
00:26:17.41\00:26:18.74
It was in the thousands.
00:26:18.77\00:26:20.11
32,000.
00:26:20.14\00:26:21.61
It was 32,000? Yeah.
00:26:21.64\00:26:22.98
And it's in the
thousands. You have 300.
00:26:23.01\00:26:25.38
300 versus 32,000...
00:26:25.41\00:26:27.82
And did God. But
they were sleeping.
00:26:27.85\00:26:31.35
And God showed up again.
00:26:31.39\00:26:32.72
See, with all these stories,
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you see the
same parallel, right?
00:26:34.12\00:26:36.32
We see God showing up in
the burning fiery furnace.
00:26:36.36\00:26:39.73
We see God showing up
with David to help with this,
00:26:39.76\00:26:43.10
the stone and
the sling, the giant.
00:26:43.13\00:26:45.17
We see God showing up
00:26:45.20\00:26:47.20
with Joshua in
the battle of Jericho,
00:26:47.24\00:26:49.40
and then God shows up again
00:26:49.44\00:26:50.81
with a Gideon
and the Midianites.
00:26:50.84\00:26:52.57
Can I make a
comment, Jill? Please.
00:26:52.61\00:26:54.48
What I see in the stories
the boys have just told us
00:26:54.51\00:26:56.71
is the people's response to God.
00:26:56.75\00:27:01.08
They believed God,
they went forward with God.
00:27:01.12\00:27:04.42
You know, you look at the
story of the children of Israel
00:27:04.45\00:27:06.22
when they went to
the land of Canaan,
00:27:06.25\00:27:08.29
and Caleb and Joshua...
00:27:08.32\00:27:09.89
The spies that went
in the land to spy it.
00:27:09.92\00:27:13.09
Caleb and Joshua believed
God, go ahead and get it,
00:27:13.13\00:27:15.83
I will give it to you,
I'll give you the land.
00:27:15.86\00:27:18.20
And the 10... And
the 10 spies, 8 spies?
00:27:18.23\00:27:21.27
Ten.
00:27:21.30\00:27:22.64
Ten spies, they
did not believe God,
00:27:22.67\00:27:25.01
and they ended up
00:27:25.04\00:27:26.37
wandering again
in the wilderness.
00:27:26.41\00:27:27.74
So it's your response to God,
00:27:27.78\00:27:29.81
whether you can
move forward in victory,
00:27:29.84\00:27:32.05
or whether you're
back in the wilderness.
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.68
And the extra point
that goes with that is that,
00:27:34.72\00:27:38.52
the facts were the same.
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.56
The
interpretation was different.
00:27:41.59\00:27:44.56
Caleb and Joshua said,
we move forward under God.
00:27:44.59\00:27:48.56
The 10 spies said
we can't move forward
00:27:48.60\00:27:52.07
because the
difficulties are insurmountable.
00:27:52.10\00:27:56.71
Yes.
00:27:56.74\00:27:58.07
Absolutely.
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.38
So let's look at some armor
00:28:00.41\00:28:03.45
that we're supposed
to wear as Christians.
00:28:03.48\00:28:07.02
We're going to go
over to Ephesians,
00:28:07.05\00:28:10.19
not Galatians, which is
what I put in the notes,
00:28:10.22\00:28:12.29
but we're going to go
to Ephesians Chapter 6.
00:28:12.32\00:28:16.89
And this is a certain armor.
00:28:16.93\00:28:18.26
Now, this is not
the armor that Saul had,
00:28:18.29\00:28:20.16
and that Saul
wanted David to wear.
00:28:20.20\00:28:23.47
Ephesians Chapter 6.
00:28:23.50\00:28:27.44
The whole armor of God.
00:28:27.47\00:28:30.21
And we'll start, Florin,
00:28:30.24\00:28:31.57
maybe we'll start with
you and we'll go around,
00:28:31.61\00:28:33.27
we can read a verse and talk.
00:28:33.31\00:28:35.24
We're looking at
Ephesians Chapter 6.
00:28:35.28\00:28:39.21
Maybe, what do
you think verse 10?
00:28:39.25\00:28:40.98
Sure.
00:28:41.02\00:28:42.35
Should we set it up a little bit
00:28:42.38\00:28:43.72
before we actually jump in?
00:28:43.75\00:28:45.09
Stop nudging me.
00:28:45.12\00:28:46.45
All right, Ephesians
6:10, "Finally, my brethren,
00:28:46.49\00:28:49.56
be strong in the Lord and
in the power of His might.
00:28:49.59\00:28:52.53
Put on the whole armor of God,
00:28:52.56\00:28:54.60
that we may be
able to stand against
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.26
the wiles of the devil.
00:28:56.30\00:28:58.73
For we wrestle, not
against flesh and blood,
00:28:58.77\00:29:00.90
but against
principalities, against powers,
00:29:00.94\00:29:02.90
against the rulers of
the darkness of this world,
00:29:02.94\00:29:06.21
against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
00:29:06.24\00:29:10.35
So what does
that verse say to you?
00:29:10.38\00:29:12.45
Put on the whole
armor of God. Wow.
00:29:12.48\00:29:14.98
Yeah, well, you can't go
into battle half dressed.
00:29:15.02\00:29:20.82
It says, put on the whole armor.
00:29:20.86\00:29:23.12
Yes.
00:29:23.16\00:29:24.49
That's a good point.
00:29:24.53\00:29:26.26
And it's God's armor.
00:29:26.29\00:29:28.16
Yes. Yes.
00:29:28.20\00:29:29.66
Absolutely.
00:29:29.70\00:29:31.03
And I like the part about,
00:29:31.07\00:29:32.40
we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
00:29:32.43\00:29:33.77
because you know, a
lot of times in the battles
00:29:33.80\00:29:35.14
we face as Christians, we think,
00:29:35.17\00:29:37.27
oh, yeah, so and so's my enemy.
00:29:37.31\00:29:39.77
Have you ever thought that?
00:29:39.81\00:29:41.14
Maybe it's a playmate,
00:29:41.18\00:29:42.68
maybe it's someone who's on
your swim team and you think,
00:29:42.71\00:29:45.35
oh, they're my
enemy, or someone at work,
00:29:45.38\00:29:47.98
or even someone in the church,
00:29:48.02\00:29:49.88
but yet our enemies
aren't anybody that we can see.
00:29:49.92\00:29:54.29
Who are our enemies?
00:29:54.32\00:29:56.02
Well, Satan likes to
attack our weakest points
00:29:56.06\00:29:57.93
and tear of character.
00:29:57.96\00:30:00.80
I mean that's one.
00:30:00.83\00:30:02.46
Yes. Absolutely.
00:30:02.50\00:30:06.33
Go ahead.
00:30:06.37\00:30:07.70
Satan likes to attack us,
00:30:07.74\00:30:10.24
not with swords and spears...
00:30:10.27\00:30:14.11
You're right.
00:30:14.14\00:30:15.48
But with every work against God.
00:30:15.51\00:30:20.78
He does attack us with stuff.
00:30:20.82\00:30:22.68
Absolutely.
00:30:22.72\00:30:24.05
That's why we got to get dressed
00:30:24.09\00:30:25.42
and not half dressed.
00:30:25.45\00:30:26.79
So I have a
question then for you, Caleb.
00:30:26.82\00:30:28.16
So when Satan comes against you,
00:30:28.19\00:30:29.52
what do you do?
00:30:29.56\00:30:31.33
You use the Bible verses,
and the whole armor of God,
00:30:31.36\00:30:36.60
which is Bible verses,
00:30:36.63\00:30:39.53
faith and all sorts
00:30:39.57\00:30:42.60
of thing that's related to God.
00:30:42.64\00:30:47.18
Yeah, I agree, far as the
Bible has so many verses in it,
00:30:47.21\00:30:50.58
that you can use against Satan.
00:30:50.61\00:30:53.01
That's a real blessing.
00:30:53.05\00:30:54.38
So then the Bible
then, there might be,
00:30:54.42\00:30:56.38
let's say, then
there's, there's someone,
00:30:56.42\00:30:58.52
a young person at home,
maybe younger than you at home.
00:30:58.55\00:31:02.16
And they say I
can't read the Bible,
00:31:02.19\00:31:04.39
because they don't
know how to read yet.
00:31:04.43\00:31:06.06
So how would they
learn and study the Bible?
00:31:06.09\00:31:08.53
How can you encourage them?
00:31:08.56\00:31:11.30
Caleb, tell him
what you do at home?
00:31:11.33\00:31:12.80
Good. Yeah.
00:31:12.83\00:31:14.17
Tell Uncle Greg,
what you do at home?
00:31:14.20\00:31:15.54
Well, I have a tablet.
00:31:15.57\00:31:18.47
Okay.
00:31:18.51\00:31:19.84
So Mom downloaded this app
00:31:19.87\00:31:22.31
that a person
reads you the Bible.
00:31:22.34\00:31:26.58
So you don't have to read
it, but they read it to you.
00:31:26.61\00:31:28.58
He listens to it every
night as he's going to sleep...
00:31:28.62\00:31:30.72
Nice.
00:31:30.75\00:31:32.09
Maybe 10 chapters,
just lays in his bed
00:31:32.12\00:31:34.02
and listens to
the Bible being read.
00:31:34.06\00:31:35.69
Nice.
00:31:35.72\00:31:37.06
He really enjoys that.
00:31:37.09\00:31:38.43
That's excellent.
00:31:38.46\00:31:39.79
So if I can ask,
Lynn, or Florin, whoever,
00:31:39.83\00:31:43.37
or both of you, how
do you raise kids today?
00:31:43.40\00:31:48.10
And teach them the Word of God?
00:31:48.14\00:31:51.14
How do you show,
how we deal with battles
00:31:51.17\00:31:55.14
and what we do
when we fight against
00:31:55.18\00:31:56.85
the enemy and all of that?
00:31:56.88\00:31:58.31
Because there're
parents right now
00:31:58.35\00:31:59.68
that are watching, saying, okay,
00:31:59.71\00:32:01.05
those young men know the Bible.
00:32:01.08\00:32:02.42
It's apparent, right?
00:32:02.45\00:32:03.79
It is apparent.
You can tell that.
00:32:03.82\00:32:05.15
Yeah, because we didn't plan
00:32:05.19\00:32:06.52
a lot of these stories for them,
00:32:06.55\00:32:07.89
so they're doing a great job.
00:32:07.92\00:32:09.26
We didn't even talk.
00:32:09.29\00:32:10.63
Well, we did say
we're going to talk
00:32:10.66\00:32:11.99
about David and Goliath.
00:32:12.03\00:32:13.36
But we didn't talk about
any of the other stories.
00:32:13.40\00:32:14.73
And that's just because
you all know the Word of God.
00:32:14.76\00:32:16.10
So how do you even
teach that to your kids?
00:32:16.13\00:32:17.47
Florin, what do you think?
00:32:17.50\00:32:18.83
Or how do you do it?
00:32:18.87\00:32:20.20
Well, I believe
in today's world,
00:32:20.24\00:32:22.80
there are a lot
of confusion about
00:32:22.84\00:32:24.24
what is real and what is not.
00:32:24.27\00:32:27.98
And we need to teach
children at a young age,
00:32:28.01\00:32:33.38
the reality of the Word of God,
00:32:33.42\00:32:36.89
and the truth
that brings with it,
00:32:36.92\00:32:39.25
and help them distinguish
00:32:39.29\00:32:41.92
between what's real
and the wrong, what is not.
00:32:41.96\00:32:45.23
And when you teach
them God's principles,
00:32:45.26\00:32:50.07
and learn the Bible stories
00:32:50.10\00:32:53.07
and learn the lessons from them,
00:32:53.10\00:32:54.44
I think they'll be ready to,
00:32:54.47\00:32:57.41
you know, learn
their own lessons
00:32:57.44\00:32:59.74
from them and then,
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.11
as they battle their
own spiritual battles,
00:33:01.14\00:33:03.71
I think, they will be reminded
of the stories of the Bible
00:33:03.75\00:33:06.92
and help them with that.
00:33:06.95\00:33:09.15
That's good.
00:33:09.18\00:33:10.52
Yeah, I agree with that,
because you can basically
00:33:10.55\00:33:11.89
go back and draw
from those stories.
00:33:11.92\00:33:13.25
Oh, I remember, mom and dad.
00:33:13.29\00:33:15.09
You know, I learned
these stories and draw from,
00:33:15.12\00:33:17.63
from those stories,
00:33:17.66\00:33:18.99
lessons that they can
apply to their own life.
00:33:19.03\00:33:20.36
Right.
00:33:20.40\00:33:21.73
I was also going
to say, it's something
00:33:21.76\00:33:23.10
you have to constantly work on.
00:33:23.13\00:33:25.23
You keep reminding
them, keep praying with them.
00:33:25.27\00:33:29.70
We work on memory verses.
00:33:29.74\00:33:31.64
Every day, we spend
time memorizing God's Word,
00:33:31.67\00:33:34.61
so that we can hide
it in our heart, so that,
00:33:34.64\00:33:36.48
hopefully someday
when they need it,
00:33:36.51\00:33:37.95
it's there in their
mind and they can pull it
00:33:37.98\00:33:40.22
to remembrance and use it.
00:33:40.25\00:33:42.58
Speaking of memory verses.
00:33:42.62\00:33:44.82
Do you boys have a favorite
memory verse that you like?
00:33:44.85\00:33:48.16
Something you've
been working on recently?
00:33:48.19\00:33:50.53
Something that you
like that helps you
00:33:50.56\00:33:52.19
or any scripture?
00:33:52.23\00:33:56.23
While you think about that,
00:33:56.26\00:33:57.60
because we just put
you on the spot right now.
00:33:57.63\00:33:59.23
Let's ask mom and dad,
00:33:59.27\00:34:01.27
how you taught Lynn and I,
00:34:01.30\00:34:05.41
growing up, to know God's Word
00:34:05.44\00:34:08.44
and to remember
God's Word in too?
00:34:08.48\00:34:10.75
Tell a lot of Bible stories.
00:34:10.78\00:34:12.38
Yeah.
00:34:12.41\00:34:13.75
You know,
Sabbath School each week.
00:34:13.78\00:34:17.25
We always sang scripture songs,
hymns, I think one way to,
00:34:17.29\00:34:21.39
a lovely way to learn
your Bible is through singing.
00:34:21.42\00:34:24.39
Singing was important to me.
00:34:24.43\00:34:27.70
I think one thing I lacked
in, way back in the day was,
00:34:27.73\00:34:31.27
we knew a lot of Bible
stories, but at that point,
00:34:31.30\00:34:33.37
I didn't
recognize and understand
00:34:33.40\00:34:37.17
to take the Bible stories
that are here and say, "Okay,
00:34:37.21\00:34:40.41
how can you apply
that to your life today?
00:34:40.44\00:34:43.04
Make it applicable for today?"
00:34:43.08\00:34:45.25
A lot of times, it
was just plain stories,
00:34:45.28\00:34:48.38
you know, but through the years
00:34:48.42\00:34:50.89
I'm learning that
we need to say, "Okay,
00:34:50.92\00:34:52.75
what are we learning in
this story for me today,
00:34:52.79\00:34:54.82
that will help me today?"
00:34:54.86\00:34:56.19
I think that's important
for parents and grandparents
00:34:56.22\00:34:58.83
even to work with
their children with that.
00:34:58.86\00:35:01.76
What about you, Dad?
00:35:01.80\00:35:03.13
It's a process. It's true.
00:35:03.16\00:35:05.23
You know, part of that
process is modeling it,
00:35:05.27\00:35:08.97
so that your children see
00:35:09.00\00:35:12.31
that it's important for you.
00:35:12.34\00:35:15.74
Prayer, the
connection through prayer,
00:35:15.78\00:35:20.52
that's very important.
00:35:20.55\00:35:24.45
Yes, children learn stories
00:35:24.49\00:35:26.99
because they
learn things concretely.
00:35:27.02\00:35:30.39
But the application in
the stories is something
00:35:30.43\00:35:34.46
that I wish we had
done a better job with,
00:35:34.50\00:35:37.10
both of us do.
00:35:37.13\00:35:38.47
I want to tag on to
something Dad just said here.
00:35:38.50\00:35:41.50
Talking about prayer,
00:35:41.54\00:35:42.87
a friend and I were just talking
00:35:42.90\00:35:44.24
about this the other day,
00:35:44.27\00:35:45.61
and I was telling her how,
00:35:45.64\00:35:47.71
we had had prayer the
other night as a family.
00:35:47.74\00:35:50.65
And each of us were
taking turns to pray,
00:35:50.68\00:35:52.85
and we had had a
particularly bad experience
00:35:52.88\00:35:55.22
goes through our
family that evening.
00:35:55.25\00:35:58.39
Some of the kids
didn't really want to pray.
00:35:58.42\00:35:59.75
And I said just
tell God how you feel.
00:35:59.79\00:36:02.22
Tell God exactly
what you feel right now.
00:36:02.26\00:36:04.33
And they just
told Him, we're angry,
00:36:04.36\00:36:05.69
we're sad, we're upset.
00:36:05.73\00:36:07.36
We had lost one of our chickens.
00:36:07.40\00:36:09.86
And everybody was very upset
00:36:09.90\00:36:11.70
because that
chicken had just died.
00:36:11.73\00:36:13.57
And I told them, tell
God exactly how you feel.
00:36:13.60\00:36:16.47
God's our friend, He
wants to hear everything,
00:36:16.50\00:36:18.57
He does, just doesn't want
us to praise Him and to just,
00:36:18.61\00:36:22.24
you know, talk
about how wonderful He is,
00:36:22.28\00:36:23.81
but He wants to know
what's going on in our life.
00:36:23.85\00:36:25.98
And, and He's, He
wants to be real in our life.
00:36:26.01\00:36:30.05
I love that about the Psalm.
00:36:30.09\00:36:32.25
You know, when
you read the Psalms,
00:36:32.29\00:36:33.62
and you read each one,
00:36:33.66\00:36:34.99
and you see David's
experience with God,
00:36:35.02\00:36:36.83
and he's very real with God.
00:36:36.86\00:36:38.56
Sometimes he's
mad, sometimes he's sad,
00:36:38.59\00:36:41.90
and sometimes he
might be discouraged.
00:36:41.93\00:36:44.13
And other times he's hopeful
and joyful in God but he's...
00:36:44.17\00:36:47.47
You're right, just very real.
00:36:47.50\00:36:48.90
Tell God how you feel.
00:36:48.94\00:36:50.27
I love that.
00:36:50.31\00:36:51.81
You know, I'm thinking about,
also I wonder about David too,
00:36:51.84\00:36:53.94
as he's facing that giant and,
00:36:53.98\00:36:56.24
you know, spinning
that sling above his head.
00:36:56.28\00:36:58.08
I'm sure he's talking
to God at that point too.
00:36:58.11\00:37:00.32
I'd like to know what he
was, his communication with God,
00:37:00.35\00:37:03.28
you know, because
we're all human beings.
00:37:03.32\00:37:04.79
And so I know
there is a level of fear,
00:37:04.82\00:37:06.32
but there's also
that trust in God that is,
00:37:06.35\00:37:09.02
we all have to rely on.
00:37:09.06\00:37:10.39
That's for sure. Amen.
00:37:10.43\00:37:11.86
Did you have a
scripture or a memory verse?
00:37:11.89\00:37:13.23
So, anybody have a
scripture that they thought of?
00:37:13.26\00:37:15.10
I have one. You do?
00:37:15.13\00:37:16.46
Yay, Stephen. Stephen.
00:37:16.50\00:37:17.83
1 John 1:9, "If
we confess our sins,
00:37:17.87\00:37:21.70
He is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins."
00:37:21.74\00:37:24.67
Amen.
00:37:24.71\00:37:26.04
"And to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
00:37:26.07\00:37:27.41
Amen. That's a good one.
00:37:27.44\00:37:29.24
I need that all the time.
00:37:29.28\00:37:30.61
You know, when
you fall into sin,
00:37:30.65\00:37:33.01
when something happens,
00:37:33.05\00:37:34.45
"Oh, Jesus, I'm sorry,
00:37:34.48\00:37:35.82
but I can come back and
know that You will forgive."
00:37:35.85\00:37:38.52
Anyone else have a scripture?
00:37:38.55\00:37:39.95
I do.
00:37:39.99\00:37:41.32
I forgot where it's found.
00:37:41.36\00:37:42.69
But it says,
00:37:42.72\00:37:45.03
"Whenever I'm afraid,
I will trust in Thee."
00:37:45.06\00:37:49.00
I love that.
00:37:49.03\00:37:50.37
I think that's Psalm 56.
00:37:50.40\00:37:52.03
I think, but it does
say, "Whenever I am afraid,
00:37:52.07\00:37:54.84
I will trust in Thee."
00:37:54.87\00:37:56.60
Absolutely.
00:37:56.64\00:37:57.97
Joshua, do you have one?
00:37:58.01\00:37:59.97
Scripture?
00:38:00.01\00:38:02.34
No scripture right now? Okay.
00:38:02.38\00:38:04.08
All right.
00:38:04.11\00:38:05.45
What's that that
you have in your pocket?
00:38:05.48\00:38:07.35
A crab.
00:38:07.38\00:38:08.72
It's a what? A crab.
00:38:08.75\00:38:10.39
A crab? Is it alive?
00:38:10.42\00:38:12.05
Can I hold it?
00:38:12.09\00:38:13.42
Wow.
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.02
Does it have a name?
00:38:15.06\00:38:17.69
Crab?
00:38:17.73\00:38:20.73
Have you ever seen a real crab?
00:38:20.76\00:38:25.03
You've seen one
on the beach. Yeah.
00:38:25.07\00:38:27.34
You saw one on the beach?
00:38:27.37\00:38:28.70
Were you afraid of the crab?
00:38:28.74\00:38:32.47
Yeah. A little bit?
00:38:32.51\00:38:34.08
Because they
kind of have pinchers.
00:38:34.11\00:38:36.38
They do. That's for sure.
00:38:36.41\00:38:37.85
And I think an
important thing too,
00:38:37.88\00:38:39.21
is that you guys, you
boys like to be outside.
00:38:39.25\00:38:41.55
You guys have chickens.
00:38:41.58\00:38:43.28
You like animals and nature.
00:38:43.32\00:38:44.65
And there's a lot of lessons
00:38:44.69\00:38:46.02
that can be learned from nature.
00:38:46.05\00:38:47.39
I think that's important
too. I remember my folks.
00:38:47.42\00:38:49.62
We were very much in
nature and in the country.
00:38:49.66\00:38:52.06
And so, finding lessons
from the Bible is important.
00:38:52.09\00:38:55.63
Also, we're just
surrounded with nature.
00:38:55.66\00:38:58.03
Even if you live in a city,
00:38:58.07\00:38:59.40
you can go to a park
00:38:59.43\00:39:00.77
or you can look
at a little flower
00:39:00.80\00:39:02.14
and just look at the
beauty of the flower.
00:39:02.17\00:39:03.51
This may not sound very nice,
00:39:03.54\00:39:04.87
but even a little fly
that's got into your house,
00:39:04.91\00:39:06.78
or a mosquito or
something like that.
00:39:06.81\00:39:08.81
You can look at that and say,
00:39:08.84\00:39:10.18
you know, isn't it incredible
how this thing can fly around?
00:39:10.21\00:39:13.18
Like that.
00:39:13.21\00:39:14.55
Not when it bites
us, that's not very fun.
00:39:14.58\00:39:16.69
But there's so much
in nature just to think,
00:39:16.72\00:39:18.39
wow, wouldn't
you guys like to fly,
00:39:18.42\00:39:20.69
like with flap
your arms and fly,
00:39:20.72\00:39:22.06
wouldn't that'd be neat?
00:39:22.09\00:39:23.43
Yeah.
00:39:23.46\00:39:24.79
Who was talking to
me about that this week?
00:39:24.83\00:39:26.16
Were all you guys talking
to me about wanting to fly?
00:39:26.19\00:39:27.53
Was that you? Yes.
00:39:27.56\00:39:28.90
We're talking about
flying and it was so,
00:39:28.93\00:39:30.53
I think it's kind of
windy, and we were playing tag,
00:39:30.57\00:39:32.70
like we mentioned
earlier, and they said,
00:39:32.73\00:39:34.07
"Wouldn't it be cool if
one of us could actually fly
00:39:34.10\00:39:35.80
and hover above everybody else?
00:39:35.84\00:39:37.71
And nobody could catch us."
00:39:37.74\00:39:40.18
So when you look
at nature like these,
00:39:40.21\00:39:42.44
have you ever seen
one of those little bugs
00:39:42.48\00:39:44.38
with black spots on them?
00:39:44.41\00:39:45.91
Ladybug? Ladybugs.
00:39:45.95\00:39:47.32
What do they call them?
00:39:47.35\00:39:48.68
Ladybugs? Ladybugs.
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.05
Yep, that's it. I was
trying to think of that.
00:39:50.09\00:39:52.09
And they flap open
their little wings.
00:39:52.12\00:39:54.26
Have you ever seen
one fly before, Joshua?
00:39:54.29\00:39:56.73
Have you seen a ladybug fly?
00:39:56.76\00:39:58.09
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:58.13\00:39:59.46
It's amazing
because God has created.
00:39:59.49\00:40:00.83
And once, it was on me.
00:40:00.86\00:40:02.33
Did one land on you?
00:40:02.36\00:40:03.70
And then it went
off me. Flew off?
00:40:03.73\00:40:05.43
Yup. I had one land on me too.
00:40:05.47\00:40:07.44
It's kind of a neat feeling,
00:40:07.47\00:40:08.80
you feel the little
legs on your finger.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.91
But again, you think about that,
00:40:10.94\00:40:12.27
God created
something that could fly.
00:40:12.31\00:40:14.34
You know, so nature,
00:40:14.38\00:40:15.71
there's so many
lessons in nature.
00:40:15.74\00:40:17.08
Yeah.
00:40:17.11\00:40:18.45
And Joshua had a
wasp on his head once.
00:40:18.48\00:40:19.81
It was hurt.
00:40:19.85\00:40:21.18
A hurt wasp was on your head.
00:40:21.22\00:40:22.95
Did you help it feel better?
00:40:22.98\00:40:26.96
I just left it on my head.
00:40:26.99\00:40:28.66
You just left it on your head?
00:40:28.69\00:40:30.03
Okay. He didn't even know.
00:40:30.06\00:40:31.39
Well, I'm glad
it didn't sting you,
00:40:31.43\00:40:32.76
I'm glad it didn't sting you.
00:40:32.79\00:40:34.13
But there's so many lessons
00:40:34.16\00:40:35.50
that God has for us
to learn in nature too.
00:40:35.53\00:40:36.87
Yes.
00:40:36.90\00:40:38.23
So, you know,
though we're not parents.
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.60
Still I think
about how our parents,
00:40:39.63\00:40:41.40
I know, you
guys too with nature,
00:40:41.44\00:40:43.00
there's so many things around us
00:40:43.04\00:40:44.37
that we can learn from.
00:40:44.41\00:40:45.74
Amen.
00:40:45.77\00:40:47.11
Shall we finish the
armor, we're supposed to wear.
00:40:47.14\00:40:48.48
All right. Yes,
Ephesians Chapter 6.
00:40:48.51\00:40:52.05
So Florin read the
first couple of verses there.
00:40:52.08\00:40:55.95
Mom.
00:40:55.98\00:40:57.32
Mom, you got it, verse 13?
00:40:57.35\00:40:58.69
Thirteen?
00:40:58.72\00:41:00.06
All right keep going,
whatever, but start with 13.
00:41:00.09\00:41:01.82
"Where for, taken to
the whole armor of God
00:41:01.86\00:41:04.03
that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day.
00:41:04.06\00:41:06.73
And having done all to stand."
00:41:06.76\00:41:09.83
You want to read another?
00:41:09.86\00:41:11.20
Let's look at the armor we got?
00:41:11.23\00:41:13.67
Oh, yeah, please.
00:41:13.70\00:41:15.04
I was gonna say there was
that, I've seen that verse.
00:41:15.07\00:41:17.21
It's a co-operation between
the human and the divine.
00:41:17.24\00:41:20.28
We have to work with God,
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.34
in order for the
armor to be a benefit to us.
00:41:22.38\00:41:26.05
Not that we're doing it.
00:41:26.08\00:41:27.72
I mean, it's God's power,
00:41:27.75\00:41:29.22
but we still have
to cooperate with God.
00:41:29.25\00:41:31.45
And how do we cooperate?
00:41:31.49\00:41:33.96
You have any ideas on how,
00:41:33.99\00:41:35.32
because that can be
kind of hard sometimes.
00:41:35.36\00:41:37.23
I guess we just have
to be willing to say,
00:41:37.26\00:41:38.69
Lord, Your will.
00:41:38.73\00:41:40.06
I submit my will to Yours.
00:41:40.10\00:41:43.73
I want to follow You and
do what You would have me do.
00:41:43.77\00:41:47.84
Well, that's good.
00:41:47.87\00:41:49.20
I agree, because
God doesn't force us.
00:41:49.24\00:41:50.97
No.
00:41:51.01\00:41:52.34
And a God that doesn't
force us is a God of love.
00:41:52.37\00:41:55.84
Because He's not saying, "Okay,
00:41:55.88\00:41:57.68
march this
direction, or do this."
00:41:57.71\00:42:00.12
It's really our choice.
00:42:00.15\00:42:01.48
And then like you're saying,
00:42:01.52\00:42:02.85
to put on the
whole armor of God...
00:42:02.88\00:42:04.22
That's good. We
have to work with God.
00:42:04.25\00:42:05.59
Amen.
00:42:05.62\00:42:06.96
So, Jonathan, I was
just thinking of this,
00:42:06.99\00:42:08.32
because you do fencing.
00:42:08.36\00:42:09.69
You just started fencing, right?
00:42:09.72\00:42:11.06
Yes.
00:42:11.09\00:42:12.43
Is that building a
fence with a hammer
00:42:12.46\00:42:13.80
and nails and boards?
00:42:13.83\00:42:15.16
Ah, no.
00:42:15.20\00:42:16.53
It's not? So,
what does that mean?
00:42:16.56\00:42:17.90
I'm thinking of the armor here.
00:42:17.93\00:42:19.27
What does that
mean, when you do fencing?
00:42:19.30\00:42:21.30
It's not
building something, right?
00:42:21.34\00:42:23.84
No, it's sword fighting.
00:42:23.87\00:42:27.14
Okay.
00:42:27.18\00:42:28.51
But you have to put armor on,
00:42:28.54\00:42:30.35
well, it's not like metal armor.
00:42:30.38\00:42:33.38
It's just kind of like this.
00:42:33.42\00:42:37.02
This thick coat,
00:42:37.05\00:42:38.62
and it protects
you from getting hurt.
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.02
It's...
00:42:41.06\00:42:42.49
And then you also
have to put a mask on
00:42:42.52\00:42:46.59
to protect your face,
00:42:46.63\00:42:48.50
or getting your eyes
punctured or, so, yeah.
00:42:48.53\00:42:52.33
Yeah.
00:42:52.37\00:42:53.70
So that's a armor. It is armor.
00:42:53.74\00:42:55.07
And if you like miss the helmet.
00:42:55.10\00:42:57.64
And you don't have
the whole full armor,
00:42:57.67\00:42:59.07
you could get hit in
the face and get hurt.
00:42:59.11\00:43:02.71
Yeah, absolutely.
00:43:02.74\00:43:04.08
So this is in the
physical world, right?
00:43:04.11\00:43:06.75
You want to protect
yourself from being hurt.
00:43:06.78\00:43:08.65
But this is spiritually
we need to have armor.
00:43:08.68\00:43:10.69
So let's read about the armor.
00:43:10.72\00:43:12.05
It kind of goes back
to Florin was saying,
00:43:12.09\00:43:13.42
you don't go in half...
00:43:13.46\00:43:14.79
Dressed. Dressed for battle.
00:43:14.82\00:43:16.69
Put on the whole armor of God.
00:43:16.73\00:43:18.29
I like that,
that was really good.
00:43:18.33\00:43:20.46
So who has the next verse?
00:43:20.50\00:43:23.63
Fourteen? Yeah.
00:43:23.67\00:43:25.00
"Stand therefore,
00:43:25.03\00:43:26.37
having girded your loins
00:43:26.40\00:43:30.91
with truth and having put on
00:43:30.94\00:43:32.61
the breastplate
of righteousness.
00:43:32.64\00:43:35.88
And having shod your
feet with the preparation
00:43:35.91\00:43:38.41
of the gospel of peace."
00:43:38.45\00:43:40.18
Amen.
00:43:40.22\00:43:41.55
"And above all,
taking the shield of faith,
00:43:41.58\00:43:44.22
with which you will be able
00:43:44.25\00:43:45.59
to quench the fiery
darts of the evil one."
00:43:45.62\00:43:50.43
"And take the
helmet of salvation,
00:43:50.46\00:43:51.83
and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God."
00:43:51.86\00:43:56.13
That goes back to what
Caleb was mentioning too,
00:43:56.16\00:43:57.87
as far as the Bible promises.
00:43:57.90\00:44:00.00
That's just really good.
00:44:00.04\00:44:03.20
How do you, so, I'm
going back to Caleb,
00:44:03.24\00:44:05.87
what you said and
this is for anybody here.
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.84
But with the Word of God,
00:44:07.88\00:44:09.31
do you have to have your Bible
with you when Satan tempts you?
00:44:09.34\00:44:13.78
No.
00:44:13.82\00:44:15.15
No? And why is that?
00:44:15.18\00:44:17.02
Why don't you have
to have it with you?
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.29
Because
00:44:19.32\00:44:21.86
you can have the
Bible verses memory in you.
00:44:21.89\00:44:27.40
That's right.
00:44:27.43\00:44:28.76
You don't have to carry
around Bible to whack someone
00:44:28.80\00:44:31.97
who's tempting you.
00:44:32.00\00:44:34.44
That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:34.47\00:44:36.17
Like literally take
the Bible and go wham.
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.34
Right, right.
00:44:38.37\00:44:40.78
No, you're right.
00:44:40.81\00:44:42.91
How about praying
because that's talking to God.
00:44:42.94\00:44:45.55
Do you have to
always close your eyes
00:44:45.58\00:44:48.48
and fold your
hands and kneel down?
00:44:48.52\00:44:50.79
No. No?
00:44:50.82\00:44:52.45
Because He's your friend.
00:44:52.49\00:44:54.46
You can just talk to Him.
00:44:54.49\00:44:57.66
Have you ever
done that, Stephen?
00:44:57.69\00:44:59.43
Just pray to Him
without doing this?
00:44:59.46\00:45:01.66
Yes. I have too.
00:45:01.70\00:45:05.70
All the time.
00:45:05.73\00:45:08.60
So, if we look at
how many pieces of armor
00:45:08.64\00:45:12.21
we had here in this verse.
00:45:12.24\00:45:14.48
Did we count how many
pieces of armor there were?
00:45:14.51\00:45:16.41
Oh, no.
00:45:16.44\00:45:17.78
You had, stand there
for, how about you boys count?
00:45:17.81\00:45:21.42
Okay, as we read, having
girded your waist with truth.
00:45:21.45\00:45:25.15
That's one.
00:45:25.19\00:45:26.52
Breastplate of righteousness.
00:45:26.55\00:45:27.89
That's two.
00:45:27.92\00:45:29.26
Feet have the preparation
of the gospel of peace,
00:45:29.29\00:45:32.86
above all, taking
the shield of faith,
00:45:32.89\00:45:35.86
helmet of
salvation, sword of the Spirit.
00:45:35.90\00:45:40.97
How many is that? That's six.
00:45:41.00\00:45:42.60
Six?
00:45:42.64\00:45:44.14
So six armor
things that we can put on.
00:45:44.17\00:45:48.58
Right, and you can add
the praying in verse 18.
00:45:48.61\00:45:51.61
I agree with that.
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.78
That's right, we
haven't read that one.
00:45:54.82\00:45:56.15
You're right. We
need a perfect number.
00:45:56.18\00:45:57.52
You want to
read that one for us?
00:45:57.55\00:45:58.89
Sure."
00:45:58.92\00:46:00.26
Praying always, with all prayer
and supplication in the spirit,
00:46:00.29\00:46:04.23
and watching
thereunto, with all perseverance
00:46:04.26\00:46:07.50
and
supplication for all saints."
00:46:07.53\00:46:09.26
Shall we read the next
one, we finish out the section.
00:46:12.73\00:46:15.27
Sure.
00:46:15.30\00:46:16.97
"And for me, that
utterance may be given unto me
00:46:17.01\00:46:21.21
that I may open my
mouth boldly to make known
00:46:21.24\00:46:23.71
the mystery of the gospel."
00:46:23.75\00:46:25.61
Amen.
00:46:25.65\00:46:26.98
So is there any time,
this is a question for anybody,
00:46:27.02\00:46:30.12
whether it's the
boys or grownups?
00:46:30.15\00:46:34.26
Is there any time in your life
00:46:34.29\00:46:35.92
when you felt like
you face the Goliath?
00:46:35.96\00:46:38.49
What I mean by that
is, you've had a battle,
00:46:38.53\00:46:40.76
or someone was coming
against who was an enemy,
00:46:40.80\00:46:43.40
or maybe a giant,
00:46:43.43\00:46:45.10
maybe a time
when you had to wear
00:46:45.13\00:46:46.77
the armor of God that
He wanted you to wear,
00:46:46.80\00:46:49.77
anytime when you face that.
00:46:49.80\00:46:52.51
And if you did, you
want to tell us about it.
00:46:52.54\00:46:54.84
Well, I can remember
when I was in nursing school,
00:46:58.11\00:47:02.55
one of my teachers told me that
you should change your career,
00:47:02.58\00:47:07.09
you'll never make a nurse.
00:47:07.12\00:47:09.49
And then,
00:47:09.52\00:47:12.53
you know, I was older than
00:47:12.56\00:47:13.90
and I remembered the stories of,
00:47:13.93\00:47:16.36
for instance, Pavarotti.
00:47:16.40\00:47:17.73
He was told that
he could never sing,
00:47:17.77\00:47:19.97
that one of the
teachers told him
00:47:20.00\00:47:21.47
that he should
change careers as well.
00:47:21.50\00:47:23.47
And then... Wow,
the famous opera singer.
00:47:23.51\00:47:26.47
Then Thomas Edison...
00:47:26.51\00:47:30.61
Edison, yeah. Yeah.
00:47:30.65\00:47:31.98
He was told that
he could not read,
00:47:32.01\00:47:33.35
and he will never
make a good student.
00:47:33.38\00:47:35.58
And then, I heard
also Einstein couldn't pass
00:47:35.62\00:47:38.45
some of his physics classes.
00:47:38.49\00:47:40.82
So I realized that,
00:47:40.86\00:47:44.79
you know,
sometimes people may not see
00:47:44.83\00:47:47.60
the value or your potential.
00:47:47.63\00:47:49.56
But you should not
give up and you should,
00:47:49.60\00:47:53.10
you know, stick
with what you believe
00:47:53.13\00:47:54.57
that God has chosen for you.
00:47:54.60\00:47:56.81
And I remember when Churchill
00:47:56.84\00:47:59.37
was under a critical situation
00:47:59.41\00:48:02.78
in England during World War II.
00:48:02.81\00:48:04.91
He was asked,
00:48:04.95\00:48:06.28
"What were the chances
of them winning the war."
00:48:06.31\00:48:08.72
And Churchill
basically said that,
00:48:08.75\00:48:11.15
"What I can promise
you are three things,
00:48:11.19\00:48:14.32
sweat, tears, and blood."
00:48:14.36\00:48:17.46
And, you know,
facing any kind of battle,
00:48:17.49\00:48:23.30
you know, if it's
spiritual or physical.
00:48:23.33\00:48:25.80
You know, when
soldiers are sent to war,
00:48:25.83\00:48:28.80
they're not thinking,
00:48:28.84\00:48:30.64
"Well, I'm going
to be in an office
00:48:30.67\00:48:32.21
and I'll be protected."
00:48:32.24\00:48:33.58
They know the risks.
00:48:33.61\00:48:35.28
And they know that,
you know, some of them can,
00:48:35.31\00:48:39.65
you know, get hurt.
00:48:39.68\00:48:41.02
So, it's the same with us.
00:48:41.05\00:48:42.55
We need to have the mentality,
we're real soldier that,
00:48:42.58\00:48:46.76
you know, this is a real battle,
00:48:46.79\00:48:48.79
even if it's
spiritual or physical.
00:48:48.82\00:48:50.96
We need to be mentally prepared,
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.29
as well as physically prepared.
00:48:53.33\00:48:56.00
You know, just as we
talked about David and Goliath,
00:48:56.03\00:48:59.77
you know, even though
David have faith in God,
00:48:59.80\00:49:02.30
but I believe that he
was an excellent shooter.
00:49:02.34\00:49:05.97
I mean, he had
practiced with that sling.
00:49:06.01\00:49:08.24
He was not, he didn't go
there and closed his eyes
00:49:08.28\00:49:10.05
and just let the
sling go off whatever.
00:49:10.08\00:49:12.01
He knew exactly
what he was going
00:49:12.05\00:49:13.58
to lead as sling go...
00:49:13.62\00:49:14.95
That's a really good point.
00:49:14.98\00:49:16.32
And it's the same with us.
00:49:16.35\00:49:17.85
We, you know, God,
you know is our strength,
00:49:17.89\00:49:20.59
but He wants us to
develop our character.
00:49:20.62\00:49:25.39
And I'm just
reminded of this poem.
00:49:25.43\00:49:28.96
Oh, great. Oh, nice.
00:49:29.00\00:49:30.53
Said, when God
wants to drill a man,
00:49:30.57\00:49:33.10
and thrill a
man, and skill a man.
00:49:33.13\00:49:35.77
When God wants to mold a
man to play the noble sport,
00:49:35.80\00:49:40.31
one he earns,
00:49:40.34\00:49:41.81
with all his heart to
create so great and bold a man,
00:49:41.84\00:49:45.91
that all the
world shall be amazed.
00:49:45.95\00:49:48.02
Watch his
methods, watch his ways,
00:49:48.05\00:49:51.29
how he ruthlessly perfects,
whom he royally elects,
00:49:51.32\00:49:56.76
how he hammers
him and hurts him.
00:49:56.79\00:49:59.76
And with mighty
blows, converts him,
00:49:59.79\00:50:03.67
how he bends but never breaks.
00:50:03.70\00:50:06.50
When his good his undertakes,
how he uses whom he chooses,
00:50:06.53\00:50:11.34
and which every
purpose fuses him.
00:50:11.37\00:50:15.01
Wow.
00:50:15.04\00:50:16.38
And then, I
just finish this off.
00:50:16.41\00:50:17.75
That is powerful.
00:50:17.78\00:50:20.62
And then the rest of it,
00:50:20.65\00:50:21.98
I didn't have time to
put on the same paper,
00:50:22.02\00:50:23.55
but, "By every act induces
him to try his splendor out.
00:50:23.59\00:50:28.86
God knows what he's about."
00:50:28.89\00:50:30.56
Wow.
00:50:30.59\00:50:31.93
Boy, that's great.
00:50:31.96\00:50:33.40
Amen. That's quite a process.
00:50:33.43\00:50:36.70
What I love about is that,
how He bends but never breaks.
00:50:36.73\00:50:42.20
So God knows exactly
00:50:42.24\00:50:43.71
how much He
needs to stretch out.
00:50:43.74\00:50:48.48
So but we never break
because we're in His hands.
00:50:48.51\00:50:50.95
Amen.
00:50:50.98\00:50:52.31
Yeah, wow.
That's powerful for me.
00:50:52.35\00:50:53.68
So tonight, you
might be watching at home,
00:50:53.72\00:50:55.62
and might be saying, I'm
in the midst of a battle,
00:50:55.65\00:50:58.02
like Florin just talked about,
00:50:58.05\00:50:59.45
and I'm being
bent and stretched.
00:50:59.49\00:51:02.66
But know that the Lord
Jesus sees you right now,
00:51:02.69\00:51:06.26
and that you are not
going to break as it were,
00:51:06.29\00:51:09.03
in the midst of that,
00:51:09.06\00:51:11.43
that He sees you and that
He will bring you through,
00:51:11.47\00:51:14.47
and He will give you victory.
00:51:14.50\00:51:16.40
Mom, you said you had something?
00:51:16.44\00:51:19.04
I was gonna say my battle is,
00:51:19.07\00:51:21.21
my giant is not
something in the past.
00:51:21.24\00:51:26.01
It's something
that's ongoing for me.
00:51:26.05\00:51:29.65
Uncertainty of the future.
00:51:29.68\00:51:33.72
You all, I mean, you
all know that I have MS. So,
00:51:33.76\00:51:38.73
sometimes if I
stop thinking about
00:51:38.76\00:51:41.06
what's the next year,
the next couple years,
00:51:41.10\00:51:42.96
next five years.
00:51:43.00\00:51:45.97
What will be for me?
What will my life be like?
00:51:46.00\00:51:49.90
It might stress me,
00:51:49.94\00:51:51.44
might make me cause for concern.
00:51:51.47\00:51:54.34
But generally, I
don't think about it,
00:51:54.38\00:51:56.54
but every now and again,
the thought crosses my mind.
00:51:56.58\00:52:00.65
But I just spend time
with God, I give thanks,
00:52:00.68\00:52:05.55
for what I can
do, what I am doing,
00:52:05.59\00:52:07.66
the blessings He gives me.
00:52:07.69\00:52:10.09
Share that joy with others
and it just helps so much.
00:52:10.13\00:52:14.26
I'm fighting the giants.
00:52:14.30\00:52:15.66
We all have
uncertainties in our lives.
00:52:15.70\00:52:17.50
We never, you
know, none of us know
00:52:17.53\00:52:18.87
what tomorrow would bring.
00:52:18.90\00:52:20.24
That's true.
00:52:20.27\00:52:21.60
But if we concentrate on
Jesus and not our circumstances,
00:52:21.64\00:52:24.31
and, I just recently
started a gratitude journal,
00:52:24.34\00:52:29.28
writing down all the,
00:52:29.31\00:52:30.65
even the little things
that I'm grateful for...
00:52:30.68\00:52:32.01
Amen. That's really great.
00:52:32.05\00:52:33.38
You know.
00:52:33.42\00:52:34.75
And I liked what
Lynn said earlier too,
00:52:34.78\00:52:36.28
and that is,
just be real with God.
00:52:36.32\00:52:38.85
Yeah. Yes.
00:52:38.89\00:52:40.22
So if today, you
know, you're worried about,
00:52:40.26\00:52:42.42
you know, the future, MS.
00:52:42.46\00:52:43.79
You know, and
what's ahead of you,
00:52:43.83\00:52:45.16
you know, just tell
God that, I like that.
00:52:45.19\00:52:46.80
Just be real,
because He knows anyway...
00:52:46.83\00:52:48.16
Yes.
00:52:48.20\00:52:49.53
So just say, God, you know,
whatever you're going through,
00:52:49.56\00:52:51.10
to just God, this is where I am.
00:52:51.13\00:52:53.27
I'm upset right now.
00:52:53.30\00:52:54.90
But I think the key is
to keep our faith in God,
00:52:54.94\00:52:58.04
because He's not
going to break us.
00:52:58.07\00:52:59.41
Focus on Jesus, not
on our circumstances.
00:52:59.44\00:53:02.71
You're gonna bend us,
00:53:02.74\00:53:04.25
but He's not going
to totally crush us.
00:53:04.28\00:53:05.61
That was good, right.
00:53:05.65\00:53:06.98
It's right.
00:53:07.02\00:53:08.48
Whoa, we're almost
out of time actually,
00:53:08.52\00:53:09.85
this family worship
time has gone by in a hurry.
00:53:09.88\00:53:12.25
Does somebody want to pray?
00:53:12.29\00:53:14.06
We have just a
few minutes, someone.
00:53:14.09\00:53:16.09
Any of you boys want to
pray? Just a short prayer?
00:53:16.12\00:53:17.89
We can have a
couple of people, right?
00:53:17.93\00:53:19.26
Yeah. A of
couple people can pray.
00:53:19.29\00:53:20.63
You want to pray,
Caleb? Anyone else, Jonathan?
00:53:20.66\00:53:22.36
Anyone else want to pray?
00:53:22.40\00:53:23.73
We can just go from there. Okay.
00:53:23.77\00:53:25.33
Go ahead, Caleb, let's pray.
00:53:25.37\00:53:26.70
Dear Jesus, thank You
that we got to get together
00:53:26.74\00:53:29.77
for family worship.
00:53:29.80\00:53:32.44
Thank You for all the blessings.
00:53:32.47\00:53:34.78
Thank You that you helped David.
00:53:34.81\00:53:37.05
Help us with
all of our Goliaths.
00:53:37.08\00:53:42.45
Help us to fight,
00:53:42.48\00:53:46.19
spiritual way.
00:53:46.22\00:53:49.76
Amen. Amen.
00:53:49.79\00:53:51.26
Dear heavenly Father,
00:53:51.29\00:53:53.03
thank You that we
had this time together.
00:53:53.06\00:53:56.90
Thank You that we
could come here together,
00:53:56.93\00:53:59.10
talk about our
battles and struggles.
00:53:59.13\00:54:02.80
Lord, You know all
our battles, struggles,
00:54:02.84\00:54:06.68
and we know that
You will help us.
00:54:06.71\00:54:09.71
Please help us
to get through them.
00:54:09.74\00:54:11.71
And thank You so much.
00:54:11.75\00:54:14.25
We love You. Amen.
00:54:14.28\00:54:18.42
Anyone else?
Anyone else want to pray?
00:54:18.45\00:54:19.92
Go ahead, Mom.
00:54:22.96\00:54:24.96
Can we pray? Yes.
00:54:24.99\00:54:27.26
Heavenly Father,
we thank You so much
00:54:27.30\00:54:28.73
for the time that
we have spent here
00:54:28.76\00:54:30.10
together as a family.
00:54:30.13\00:54:32.13
How precious it is
when we can be together.
00:54:32.17\00:54:36.10
But most important, Father,
00:54:36.14\00:54:37.47
we thank You for the
love that we have for You,
00:54:37.51\00:54:40.38
for Your Son, Jesus Christ,
00:54:40.41\00:54:41.78
who left all of
heaven to come here
00:54:41.81\00:54:43.45
because He loved us so much.
00:54:43.48\00:54:45.98
Maybe we love You in return.
00:54:46.01\00:54:48.08
And know that
whatever we face each day,
00:54:48.12\00:54:50.35
that You walk beside
us, that You hold us,
00:54:50.39\00:54:53.62
that Your grace
sustains us, You strengthen us,
00:54:53.66\00:54:57.29
help us to be faithful
to You, as David was to You,
00:54:57.33\00:55:01.76
that we may be
victorious over the devil.
00:55:01.80\00:55:04.73
And that when You come
in the clouds of glory,
00:55:04.77\00:55:06.23
that we may be
ready to go home with You.
00:55:06.27\00:55:09.04
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
00:55:09.07\00:55:12.27
Father, God, we just thank
You for this time together,
00:55:12.31\00:55:15.11
family around the table.
00:55:15.14\00:55:16.48
What a blessing to
be together as family.
00:55:16.51\00:55:19.18
We thank You that
You are our Father,
00:55:19.21\00:55:23.08
we thank You
for our 3ABN family,
00:55:23.12\00:55:24.95
a home that joins with us.
00:55:24.99\00:55:26.72
And we just praise You
00:55:26.76\00:55:28.42
for Your
forgiveness and for Your mercy,
00:55:28.46\00:55:30.43
and for Your grace,
00:55:30.46\00:55:31.79
and for the strength
that You can give us.
00:55:31.83\00:55:34.50
And, Lord, I
just pray especially
00:55:34.53\00:55:36.80
for our brothers and
sisters watching at home,
00:55:36.83\00:55:39.27
listening at home,
00:55:39.30\00:55:40.64
whatever battle they
are facing right now,
00:55:40.67\00:55:43.34
God, would You
grant them victory.
00:55:43.37\00:55:45.41
Would Your grace
be made sufficient
00:55:45.44\00:55:47.78
in their time of weakness.
00:55:47.81\00:55:49.78
And would You walk
beside them and we thank You.
00:55:49.81\00:55:53.85
Father, what a blessing it
is to be able to spend this time
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with You to open Your Word.
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We pray for a special
Sabbath blessing on each person
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that's tuned in, or
listening this evening,
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or we thank you for Your love,
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and for sending Jesus
and for His sacrifice.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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It's been wonderful to
spend this time with family,
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hasn't it baby?
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Especially for you with
your, you know, your family,
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my family too.
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This is a treat, so.
This is such a treat for me.
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So, thank you all
for being willing to come
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and do something stressful.
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It can be a little stressful,
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you know, you're
not used to that.
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So thank you very much.
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But most of all, thank you
for sharing from your heart,
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and your experience,
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your knowledge
of the Word of God.
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What a tremendous blessing.
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So, know that we love you all.
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And so grateful
that God made us family.
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Amen.
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And we hope that
you are encouraged,
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have been
encouraged this evening,
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as we study the Word of God.
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You've heard it
out of the mouths,
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even of the nephews here,
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about the importance
of opening the scriptures
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and putting them to memory.
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And it was mentioned earlier,
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you can memorize
scripture through music.
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There's many different
ways that you can do that,
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to praying to God.
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You know, and I
think the encouraging thing
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we've heard here
this evening too,
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is that there is no
giant too big for God.
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Amen.
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You got it all taken care
of, so we can trust in Him.
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So we want to
encourage you this evening.
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No matter what you're
facing right now, God's got it.
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Surrender your life to Him,
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because He will
take care of you.
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And remember to
study the Word of God,
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for in it you
will find treasures.
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God bless you.
We'll see you next time.
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Happy Sabbath.
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You want to wave? Will you?
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Hey.
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