Jesus walked this earth in
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what we refer to today
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as the Holy Land
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in the Middle East.
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We had the privilege
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of going there
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and ministering
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to people
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in that part of the world,
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but also of learning from them.
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I invite you now
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to learn some lessons
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from the Holy Land
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with us as I shared it
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live in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Father in heaven,
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we thank you so much for the
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the power of prayer.
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We thank you that
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we can come in Jesus name.
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That you want
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to guide our minds,
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that you want to
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draw us to you.
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Please help us to that end.
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We ask, in Jesus name, Amen.
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Well, those words
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still come to us
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with exceeding power.
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It's the Gospel Commission.
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It's still ringing out
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even though Jesus
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spoke those words
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some 2,000 years ago.
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In Matthew 28,
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He said that all authority,
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all power had been given
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to Him in heaven and on earth.
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And He charged
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those listening
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to His words
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that they should do what? Go.
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They should go
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make disciples of all nations
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baptizing them
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in the name of the Father,
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the Son
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and the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them
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to observe all things,
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all the things
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that He had commanded them.
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And then He assured them
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that He would be with them
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to the end of the world.
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Well,
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this isn't just something
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that Jesus spoke
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for those in antiquity.
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The context
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of the Great Commission
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in Matthew 28,
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the fact that it also appears
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in a different context
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in Mark
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16 indicates
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that Jesus was repeatedly
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giving this commission.
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In the book Desire of Ages
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puts it this way.
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The Savior's Commission to
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the Disciples included who?
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All the believers.
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It includes
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all believers in Christ
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to the end of time.
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Have we reached
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the end of time yet?
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Well, yeah,
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we're close, but we're,
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the time hasn't ended yet.
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Okay.
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So the point is,
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it includes all of us.
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And then it makes this point.
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As much as I appreciate
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your appreciation of me.
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You are all called to ministry.
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It is a fatal mistake
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to, to assume what?
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To suppose or assume
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that the work of
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saving souls
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depends alone
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on the ordained minister.
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Now, some of you
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well know that I'm a physician.
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Physicians do not like
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to make mistakes
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any more than anyone else.
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But the mistakes
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that we can make
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can have greater consequences
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than the mistakes
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that may be your person
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at the checkout counter
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might make
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at the grocery store.
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You understand
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what I'm saying, right?
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So we especially like
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to avoid fatal mistakes.
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How about you?
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Do you like to avoid
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fatal mistakes?
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Okay.
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The fatal mistake
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that you could make
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is somehow thinking
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that the Great Commission
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does not apply to you.
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Right?
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Isn't that what it's
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saying here?
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All, all to whom
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the heavenly
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inspiration is come
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are put in trust
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with the gospel.
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All who receive
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the life of Christ are ordained
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to work for the salvation
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of their fellow men.
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For this work
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the church was established
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and all
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who take upon themselves
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its sacred vows
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are thereby pledged
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to be coworkers with Christ.
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So why were we
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in the Middle East?
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You say.
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Well, the Commission was to go,
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but you just don't go anywhere.
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You just don't
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show up to show up.
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You could,
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but hopefully you're
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looking for direction
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from the Lord.
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We felt that direction
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came in the appeal
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of our brethren.
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We have a union.
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The Adventist church
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is organized
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according to divisions
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and unions and conferences.
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And the union that is over
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much of the Middle East
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is called the Middle East
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and North African Union.
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So we received a call from them
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and especially from
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the Gulf field.
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So they don't have
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conferences there like we have.
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So we're
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the Indiana Conference,
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part of the Lake Union.
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They have fields.
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So the Gulf field
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is part of the Middle
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East and North African Union.
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And so the Gulf field
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was going to have
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a camp meeting
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and they were interested
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in having
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a strong health component
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that would include lectures
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as well as personal counseling.
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So that is
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why we headed
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to the Middle East.
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So this was the special event,
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October 20 to 23rd,
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the Gulf Field Camp Meeting.
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Sonja was doing a lot of the
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most rigorous work,
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meeting with people one on one.
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I say that's the most rigorous
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because you can't
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prepare for that, right?
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When it comes to
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presenting a lecture,
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well, you know,
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you can prepare for that.
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But when it comes to
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one on one,
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that's especially challenging.
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We also together
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did some group sessions
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with the participants.
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So that was the special reason
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for going.
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As the Gulf Field
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was reaching out to us
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and working through the Union,
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the Union asked us
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would we be willing
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to come to Lebanon as well.
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So we actually ended up
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in Lebanon
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first doing health
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ministry there.
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So for those of you
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who are
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geographically challenged,
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like our foreign brothers
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and sisters assume we all are,
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living in
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the United States,
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here is a map
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of our flight path.
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So we started in Fort
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Wayne, went from Fort
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Wayne to Chicago,
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and then this is the path
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of the plane
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going from Chicago,
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actually not far from Beirut,
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Lebanon, flying over
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Beirut into Doha, Qatar.
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So that's
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in the Arabian Peninsula.
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There
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you see where the plane is
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illustrated as landing.
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If you want that blown up,
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you can see Beirut
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at the very top of the map
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in the upper left hand corner.
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And you can see where
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our first leg of the flight
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from the US to the Middle
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East took us.
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Now, we were going to Beirut
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and you know how flights are
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these days.
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You may fly
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right over the very place
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you're planning to go to,
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only to have have to jump
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on another plane
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for 3 or 4 hours to go back
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to where you could have said,
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why didn't
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they just stop in Beirut
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and let us off?
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But it didn't quite work
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like that.
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So that was where we ministered
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during the last few weeks.
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If you are trying to get
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some sense of mileage,
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you can see we're talking,
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what, 5500 miles
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or so from New York,
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a lot closer to places
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like India and Europe.
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I was surprised
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by how many people on
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the flight
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were headed to India.
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And I said, well,
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how much further
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is it to India?
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They said, Oh, 4 or 5 hours.
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So yeah, you're a good way
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around the world
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when you're in the Middle East.
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Why is health
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such a important part
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of what we do as Christians?
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Well,
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I'd like to suggest to you
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there's at least three reasons.
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First of all,
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the example of Jesus,
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the work of the disciples,
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and then health is a universal
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felt need.
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So let me just touch
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on a few of these things
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that these are familiar
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kind of review things
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for you Bible students.
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But Matthew, the gospel writer,
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more than once,
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actually, to be precise,
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twice, emphasized
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Jesus ministry
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in an interesting summary.
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We first find it in Matthew 4.
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There, Matthew summarized
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Jesus ministry in these words.
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Jesus went about all Galilee
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teaching in their synagogues,
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preaching the Gospel
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of the Kingdom and what?
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Healing all kinds of sickness
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and all kinds of disease
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among the people.
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So when Matthew summarizes
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Jesus ministry,
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it's not just
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preaching and teaching,
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but it's also what?
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It's healing.
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And often the Bible,
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if God really wants
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us to get a point,
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it will repeat it
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more than once.
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And that's what Matthew does.
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Five chapters later, in Matthew
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9, almost identical words
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is Jesus ministry
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in another phase of his three
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and a half year
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ministry is summarized
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virtually verbatim.
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Jesus went about all the cities
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and villages
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teaching in their synagogues,
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preaching the gospel
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of the kingdom
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and healing every sickness
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and every disease
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among the people.
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So Jesus example is clear
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teaching,
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preaching and healing.
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Every time He sent out,
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every time He commissioned
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disciples to go out,
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He gave them that
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three fold work.
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Study His call to the 12,
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study when He sent out the 70.
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Look at the Great Commission,
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not just in Matthew 28,
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but in Mark 16,
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and you'll see
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teaching, preaching and
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healing were all included.
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It's interesting to me that
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Seventh-day Adventist,
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unlike many churches
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in the 1800s,
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when the
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
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was growing up out
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of what was called
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the Great Advent Movement,
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the second
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Great Awakening here,
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not only in the United States
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but throughout the world.
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So the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church didn't
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grow up with an individual,
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it didn't grow up
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with a group of people.
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It grew up with a movement
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I think is very significant.
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So it wasn't some individual
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breaking away from a church
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or something like that.
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That's not to depreciate
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how God has used
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people like that in history.
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But the Seventh-day Adventist
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Church was part of a movement.
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And as they were were studying
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and God was guiding,
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they said things like this.
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As a people,
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we have been given the work
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of making known
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the principles
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of health reform.
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There are some
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who think that
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the question of diet
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is not of sufficient importance
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to be included
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in their evangelistic work,
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but such make a what?
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Great mistake.
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God's Word declares,
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and then
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you hear this quotation
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from the words of Paul
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in 1 Corinthians,
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whether therefore you eat
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or drink
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or whatever
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you do,
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do all to the glory of God.
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The subject of temperance
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in all its bearing
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has an important place
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in the work of salvation.
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And then continuing in this
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statement
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in connection with the
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presentation
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of spiritual truths,
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we should also present
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with the Word of God
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says upon the questions
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of health and temperance.
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In every way possible,
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we must seek to bring souls
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under the convicting
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and converting power of God.
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So God wants to show us things
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in our life,
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our spiritual life,
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our physical life
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that help us recognize our need
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for him to work in our lives.
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And the health
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message does that.
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But health is also a
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universal felt need.
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We didn't have to
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go far on our trip
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to realize
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that people were concerned
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about health
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all over the world.
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We're sitting on that flight
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from Chicago to Qatar.
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And what do we see?
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We see signage coming
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up, concerned
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about health needs,
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medical needs.
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When we arrived
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in the Middle East,
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just like here,
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we saw
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many examples of people's
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interest in health.
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Here are some
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nursing professionals.
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Perhaps they have vehicles
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that you might envy,
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if you like motorcycles.
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But these are
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the first responders in Dubai.
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They're equipped
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with motorcycles.
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The traffic actually
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could be pretty bad there.
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We got into some
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serious traffic in Dubai.
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You might see a little
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Ayurvedic clinic here,
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if you can
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read the fine
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print on some of the signage
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in this strip mall
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in the United Arab Emirates.
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You might
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walk through one of the souks,
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the open markets
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that they have in
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that part of the world,
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whether you're in Lebanon
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or whether you're in
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the UAE, where we spent
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a good portion of our time.
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And you'll find
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that if you walk
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into a spice shop,
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you'll find that
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they've got medical claims
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that they're making.
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You want to buy their saffron
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because it will do
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all these medical things
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for you.
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Mint that they sell
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there will do specific
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health things.
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They've got big signage.
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Are people concerned
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about health everywhere?
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They are.
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And whether it's a big
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hospital in Ras al Khaimah,
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which is one of the
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seven Emirates,
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which is near
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where the camp meeting was.
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Big modern hospital,
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whether it's a clinic
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in the Dubai mall,
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or whether it's in Lebanon,
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a pharmacy
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by the side of a busy road,
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everyone is concerned
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about health.
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So what we did,
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as I mentioned,
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we gave lectures
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and did counseling.
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But there was special interest
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in something
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that you collectively
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have embraced as a church.
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And I just want to
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commend you for this.
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Some of you think
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we have this 30
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day program, and that's Dr.
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DeRose.
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His program is 30 short videos.
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Yes, I recorded those videos
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before I came here.
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But you as a church,
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because of your emphasis
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in health ministry
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and your desire
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to move forward,
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a year ago,
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we held a series here
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in Fort Wayne
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where we did
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four one hour presentations.
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We tied it in with these
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six minute daily videos
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and we called it 30 Days
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to Better Health.
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Many of you have
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signed up for it
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at TimelessHealingInsights.org,
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TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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But the folks there in the UAE,
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I'm thinking of one
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pastor in particular
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came to me and said,
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We are so excited about this.
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We want to do this program
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in our church.
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What you've developed
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here, working together is
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there is now a platform
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anyone in the world
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can sign up for this program.
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They'll get a daily email
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and they get resources.
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So in their church,
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in their workplace,
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in a community center,
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in their home,
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they can put on a 30
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day health program.
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All the resources are there
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four one-hour presentations,
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there's handouts, recipes
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that our own Judy
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Mueller pulled together.
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So this is a joint effort
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of our church,
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and hundreds of people
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have gone
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through theat program.
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Many of them,
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dozens of them signed up
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when I was there
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in the Middle East for it.
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So what
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I'm just letting you know is it
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may seem like Sonja
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and I went,
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but you went with us.
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And that's true
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in more ways than you realize,
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because it's
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not just the preaching,
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the speaking that here
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I am at the camp meeting
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in, um, in the UAE.
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But
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it's really your partnership
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that even got us there.
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Let me tell you why I say that.
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So really getting to
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the Middle East was
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we were reminded
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that success
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or failure
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does not just depend
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on our resources.
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So a number of
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you were kind
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enough to be involved
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with our transportation.
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I know others of
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you offered to be involved,
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but we only needed one ride
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there and one ride back.
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So thank you
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all, for those of you
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who offered
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and those of you
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who actually helped us.
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That was a huge blessing.
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But your prayers
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were incredibly important
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because we were reminded
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that trips can be derailed
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very quickly.
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Let me give you
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a little bit of background
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and first remind you
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that this is a
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Biblical perspective.
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You know, a lot of people think
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Paul, the great missionary,
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Paul, never saw his ministry
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as being something
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he did on his own.
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He was always traveling
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as part of a ministry team.
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He never went alone.
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And then as he ministered,
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he saw his ministry
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very holistically,
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very collectively
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with the church.
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Look with me at how Paul
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dealt with the Church of Rome.
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In Romans 1:11,
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he said,
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he said, I long to see you,
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those of you in Rome,
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that I may impart to you
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some spiritual gift
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to strengthen you.
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And then he corrects himself.
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He stops its,
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you know,
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I don't want to come to
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bless you says, No, no, no,
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I want to come that we may be
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mutually encouraged
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by each other's faith,
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both you and me.
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So you would think
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the great apostle
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Paul, he's
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coming to bless others,
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but he says, No, no,
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we're all in this together.
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When we're ministering,
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we're ministering
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to one another.
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And we were truly blessed,
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ministering
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over there
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in the Middle East
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by people that we went
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to minister to.
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Paul at the end
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of the book of Romans
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put it this way,
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I hope to see you in passing
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as I go to Spain,
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and to be helped on my journey
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there by you, once
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I have enjoyed your company
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for a while.
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At present, however, I'm
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going to Jerusalem
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bringing aid to the saints.
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For Macedonia
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and Achaia, we'd say,
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you know, Greece in that region
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today, have been pleased
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to make some contribution
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for the poor
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among the saints in Jerusalem.
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So part of what Paul was doing
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as as he ministered,
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he was also ministering
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practically and
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interestingly you might
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come to know someone from here
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sent us with some things
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to take over to the Middle East
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and some people in the Middle
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East sent us back
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with some things
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that they wanted us
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to get to people
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here in the U.S.
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So this is this
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part of this collective
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aspect of ministry.
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Paul then said this
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as he continued in Romans 15,
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when therefore I have completed
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this and have delivered to them
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what has been collected,
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I will leave for Spain
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by way of you.
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I appeal to you brothers
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by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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and by the love of the Spirit
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to strive together
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with me in your prayers
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to God on my behalf,
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so that by God's will,
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I may come to you with joy
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and be refreshed
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in your company.
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He's basically saying, Here,
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I need your prayers
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to make my ministry successful.
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And we definitely were
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reminded of that.
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Here is one of our
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boarding passes.
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And this is actually
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the boarding pass from,
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an interesting boarding pass.
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If you look at it closely,
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it's the boarding pass
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from Qatar to Dallas.
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And what I found
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so interesting about it
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is on this boarding pass,
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they printed out TSA Pre.
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How many of you think
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TSA is very active in Qatar?
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There's no TSA there.
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But interestingly,
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they left the TSA Pre off
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our ticket from
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Chicago
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to Qatar on the way over.
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Okay.
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So
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let me just tell you
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a little bit what was going on.
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We got on the plane
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in Fort Wayne,
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and we sat
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on the tarmac in Fort Wayne,
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and we sat on the tarmac
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in Fort Wayne.
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And the pilots said
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O'Hare is shut down.
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There's a ground stoppage
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because of
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insufficient personnel.
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So as we sit there
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praying, looking at our watch,
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we're thinking, okay.
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Well, finally we took off
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and we got there.
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I think we landed about an hour
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in advance
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of an international flight,
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which is not good
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to begin with.
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And in O'Hare,
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you've got to leave
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one terminal,
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go to another terminal, again
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go through
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security
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and board
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your international flight.
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So we're rushing around O'Hare
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and we get to the point
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where we've got to clear
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security and we show them our
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tickets along with
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our you know,
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we go to TSA Pre
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and they say, oh,
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no, no, it's not stamped.
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And I
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say it's on these other things.
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They just didn't
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stamp it on this boarding pass.
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And then they look at it
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and they say,
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these tickets are no,
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these boarding
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pass are no good.
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You got you got to get others.
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You can't come,
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you can't come through.
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And we go, well our our flights
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leaving like, you know, and
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and you know
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45 minutes now 50 minutes.
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No you've got to go to the
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to the desk
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and get new boarding passes.
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Okay.
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So we go over to the the desk,
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well we try to find
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where the desk is.
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You know
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we're looking for
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Qatar Airlines
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and there is no Qatar Airlines.
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If you've flown
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internationally, you know,
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some of these
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carriers,
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they just give them the desk
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for a period of time up
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till like an hour
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before the flight
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and then they're gone.
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So someone said, well,
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they were here.
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And and so we went up.
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I don't know who was there now
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at that desk, Emirates Airlines
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or someone else.
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And I said,
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you know,
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we need someone from Qatar.
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I mean, we've got
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a flight leaving.
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They said,
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they're not letting us
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board the plane
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without a boarding pass.
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They wouldn't
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let us check on electronically.
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We had tried that before.
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We tried it again
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in the airport.
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And so all of a sudden
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someone appears
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from Qatar Airlines.
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I don't know how
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they ended up there.
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Maybe it was your prayers
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that the Lord No, I'm serious.
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I'm
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this person just ends up there
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and we're telling you
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the situation is it's too late.
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We've closed everything down.
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And I said, we can't even get
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get to the gate.
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And then someone else
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comes running up
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and with the same predicament.
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And I said,
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You have to help us.
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And so this fellow actually
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walks us over to TSA.
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Now, I didn't tell you
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as we're waiting there
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in all this
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drama, we're going
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through our boarding passes
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and somehow in the process
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of giving our boarding passes
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to the people who,
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you know,
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the initial front line
00:21:20.98\00:21:21.81
TSA people, they ended up
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causing one of our
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boarding passes to disappear.
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Now I'm blaming them.
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I suppose
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they could have
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given it back to us
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and we just
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carelessly dropped it.
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That's never happened
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to me before.
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But one of the boarding
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passes is gone
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and it's mine
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to get on the next
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on that flight.
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So I'm thinking,
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this is not looking
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really good.
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How is this guy
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going to get us through?
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And so he gets there.
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And this is just that,
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you know, the screening people
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don't even let you in line.
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And he's kind of
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arguing with them.
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And and finally
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they just go through.
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Just go through.
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So we go through.
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But now there's a big line
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and there is the the real
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TSA people are going
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to check your boarding pass
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and your I.D.
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and they're not going to
00:22:00.65\00:22:01.12
let you on the plane
00:22:01.18\00:22:01.88
without that.
00:22:01.88\00:22:03.02
So now I don't know
00:22:03.02\00:22:03.79
what we've got.
00:22:03.79\00:22:04.22
Maybe 40 minutes
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or something for the flight.
00:22:05.09\00:22:07.16
And I'm looking at Sonja
00:22:07.16\00:22:08.32
and I said, you know,
00:22:08.32\00:22:09.09
unless the Lord wants us
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.26
on this plane,
00:22:10.26\00:22:10.73
we're not getting
00:22:10.73\00:22:11.26
on this plane.
00:22:11.26\00:22:11.89
And so
00:22:11.89\00:22:12.29
I don't see any way
00:22:12.79\00:22:13.66
this is going to happen.
00:22:13.66\00:22:15.03
So finally we make
00:22:15.03\00:22:16.60
our way through the line.
00:22:16.60\00:22:17.63
In fact, the guy from Qatar
00:22:19.13\00:22:20.60
Airlines already acted like
00:22:20.60\00:22:21.94
they're probably
00:22:21.94\00:22:22.70
he he gave us the impression
00:22:22.70\00:22:23.87
they're probably already
00:22:23.87\00:22:24.51
closing the doors.
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And this was quite a while,
00:22:25.71\00:22:26.81
you know, after
00:22:26.81\00:22:27.41
before we waited in line.
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I say, Sonja,
00:22:29.58\00:22:30.28
you go through first,
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you got the legitimate
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boarding pass.
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So she goes up there,
00:22:32.71\00:22:34.25
she says, my husband's with me.
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For some reason,
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I don't
00:22:37.02\00:22:37.62
act like he was looking online.
00:22:37.72\00:22:39.85
He let me through.
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Praise the Lord.
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Don't try that one.
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So I thought about this
00:22:48.63\00:22:51.03
and I said,
00:22:51.03\00:22:51.80
You know,
00:22:51.80\00:22:52.10
some of you may have a job
00:22:52.43\00:22:53.90
and you don't show
00:22:53.90\00:22:54.40
up for work one day
00:22:54.40\00:22:55.40
and you think, Well,
00:22:55.40\00:22:55.90
who who's impacted?
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Boy, I'll tell you,
00:22:57.44\00:22:58.11
those people at O'Hare
00:22:58.11\00:22:59.07
really impacted us.
00:22:59.07\00:23:00.71
And then the attitude
00:23:00.71\00:23:01.74
of those people at TSA.
00:23:01.74\00:23:03.95
I thought about it
00:23:03.95\00:23:04.68
a little later.
00:23:04.68\00:23:05.21
I said, well,
00:23:05.21\00:23:06.11
maybe they were just
00:23:06.11\00:23:07.05
trying to tell us
00:23:07.05\00:23:08.05
we had to get a
00:23:08.05\00:23:09.08
another boarding pass
00:23:09.08\00:23:10.12
to say TSA Pre.
00:23:10.12\00:23:11.45
But they gave us the impression
00:23:11.45\00:23:12.69
that they weren't
00:23:12.69\00:23:13.09
going to let us on the plane.
00:23:13.39\00:23:15.12
Anyway, the body is important.
00:23:15.12\00:23:18.19
The body is important.
00:23:18.19\00:23:19.69
Everyone has a role
00:23:19.69\00:23:21.16
and the Bible says
00:23:21.16\00:23:22.03
we're being built
00:23:22.03\00:23:22.96
into a temple.
00:23:22.96\00:23:23.70
Let me give you a contrast.
00:23:23.70\00:23:25.10
After we finally got to
00:23:25.10\00:23:26.67
Dubai, about a week later, we
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.00
had the privilege of seeing
00:23:30.21\00:23:31.74
the world's tallest building.
00:23:31.74\00:23:33.14
And I was struck by something
00:23:33.14\00:23:35.38
they have panel after panel
00:23:35.38\00:23:37.51
of how they value team work.
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.41
People from all over the world
00:23:39.41\00:23:41.48
who helped build
00:23:41.48\00:23:42.55
what they call
00:23:42.55\00:23:43.02
the Burj Khalifa,
00:23:43.02\00:23:44.82
panel after panel,
00:23:44.82\00:23:46.12
people with their names,
00:23:46.12\00:23:47.46
their country
00:23:47.46\00:23:48.06
of origin, the role
00:23:48.06\00:23:49.26
they had in the project.
00:23:49.26\00:23:50.79
And it just struck me,
00:23:50.79\00:23:52.03
you know, of
00:23:52.03\00:23:52.53
of taking taking pride
00:23:52.53\00:23:54.36
in your work,
00:23:54.36\00:23:55.16
esteeming one another.
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Just a very
00:23:56.97\00:23:57.90
different perspective
00:23:57.90\00:23:59.10
than sometimes people have
00:23:59.10\00:24:01.24
because they think their job
00:24:01.24\00:24:02.77
is just routine
00:24:02.77\00:24:04.11
and unimportant.
00:24:04.11\00:24:05.91
Bottom line,
00:24:05.91\00:24:06.84
prayer is powerful.
00:24:06.84\00:24:07.98
Your prayers, I believe,
00:24:07.98\00:24:09.34
was what helped us
00:24:09.34\00:24:10.65
get to the Middle East.
00:24:10.65\00:24:11.91
Whatever you ask in my name,
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Jesus said, that I will do that
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the Father may
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be glorified in the Son.
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If you ask anything in my name,
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I will do it.
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So thank you.
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Many of you were praying
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for safe travels for us.
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Yes, we,
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Sonja and I got on the plane
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just as they were
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closing the door.
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That's that's the
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we're the final people
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getting on.
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I guess there's that
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one other guy.
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He might have been
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the other guy
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struggling to get there.
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And so we did end
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up on that Qatar Airlines
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flight enroute to Doha
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and then to Beirut, Lebanon.
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Let me just illustrate this
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importance of the church
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just in another way.
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If you've
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traveled internationally,
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one of my greatest
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fears is cabs, okay?
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We've had some bad experiences
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over the years with cabs
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and, you know,
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getting on in foreign countries
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where they don't speak English
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and they're driving
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you all over and you think,
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you know, they're totally lost
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driving in circles,
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you know,
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and you can't communicate.
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So this is not a
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good situation.
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So we get on
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with this cab driver,
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he's depicted here ,and
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you know,
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he just whizzing through.
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You can't really make much
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out of those pictures
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because he just speeding
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through the streets.
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It's like midnight
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in Beirut, Lebanon.
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And we're going through
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these back
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alleys and these,
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and I, and I, I said to Sonja,
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I said, Sonja,
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if our brothers and sisters
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in the church
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hadn't selected
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this taxi driver
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and entrusted to him
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the job of
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getting us to our destination,
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I would be
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afraid that this guy
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is taking us
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into the middle of nowhere,
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you know.
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And some of
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his friends are going
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to, you know, take our luggage
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if not, do something worse.
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So anyway,
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we did end up
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at our destination in Beirut.
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But we were reminded,
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we're reminded
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whether it was on a plane trip,
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whether it was in a taxi cab,
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whether it was people
00:26:03.36\00:26:04.33
praying for us here
00:26:04.33\00:26:05.66
in Fort Wayne,
00:26:05.66\00:26:06.86
whether it was
00:26:06.86\00:26:07.46
the organizers of the trip
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.36
praying for us
00:26:09.36\00:26:10.17
in the Middle East,
00:26:10.17\00:26:11.40
that God was working
00:26:11.40\00:26:13.37
through his church.
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.07
Don't forget that.
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We're all part of end time
00:26:17.61\00:26:20.18
gospel ministry.
00:26:20.18\00:26:21.41
Whether we ever
00:26:21.41\00:26:22.58
leave our pews or not.
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.01
But your prayers,
00:26:24.01\00:26:25.35
your offerings,
00:26:25.35\00:26:26.31
your commitment
00:26:26.31\00:26:27.48
makes a huge difference.
00:26:27.48\00:26:31.95
God wants to guide you
00:26:31.95\00:26:33.96
on your journeys as well,
00:26:33.96\00:26:35.09
and He wants you to be
00:26:35.09\00:26:35.89
part of the church
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.16
that's praying for others.
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.10
Jesus invites you
00:26:40.10\00:26:41.06
to trust your life with Him
00:26:41.06\00:26:42.86
and to press close to Him
00:26:42.86\00:26:44.00
and praying for others.
00:26:44.00\00:26:44.87
Let's do that together
00:26:44.87\00:26:45.83
as we close.
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Father in Heaven,
00:26:47.04\00:26:47.87
we thank you for the privilege
00:26:47.87\00:26:49.10
we have
00:26:49.10\00:26:49.54
of receiving your guidance.
00:26:49.77\00:26:50.81
We also
00:26:50.81\00:26:51.31
thank you
00:26:51.31\00:26:51.77
that we can uplift
00:26:51.77\00:26:53.64
your children
00:26:53.64\00:26:54.48
throughout the world
00:26:54.48\00:26:55.54
on their journeys for you.
00:26:55.54\00:26:57.28
Father, please
00:26:57.28\00:26:58.01
put on our hearts
00:26:58.01\00:26:58.78
just the ones
00:26:58.78\00:26:59.48
we should be praying for.
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Bless in our lives
00:27:01.28\00:27:03.15
and in the lives of those
00:27:03.15\00:27:04.12
you connect us with,
00:27:04.12\00:27:05.32
we ask, in Jesus name, Amen.
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May God bless you to that end.
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