Timeless
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Healing
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Insights with Dr.
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David DeRose.
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I am so glad
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to have you with us today.
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As we look at part
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two in a two part
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series, Lessons
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from the Middle East.
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Let's pray for God's
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guidance together.
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Father in heaven,
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we thank you so much
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that you cared enough for us
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that you sent your Son
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to the Middle East
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to make a difference for us
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and for our world.
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Father,
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as we go in our mind's eye
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to that part of the world,
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please draw us closer to you
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and to one another.
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We ask in Jesus name, Amen.
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Well,
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if you end up
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in the Middle East,
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you cannot avoid
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being connected
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with the world of the Bible.
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After all,
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that's
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where the much of the Bible
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was written, right?
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Right there in the Middle East.
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And one of
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the interesting things
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you'll find
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if you go to minister,
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no matter what reason
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you go, the locals,
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your brothers and sisters in
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the church,
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they're going to want you
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to see some of their country.
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And so it was in Lebanon.
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We had been busy.
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We flew
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in, got in early
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Friday morning,
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you know, jetlagged
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and all, you know,
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sleeping
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a good part of the day.
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And then we met
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with some of the
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union leadership
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later in that day.
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And then we're holding meetings
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preaching Sabbath
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and holding other meetings
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on Sabbath.
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And the sun has gone down.
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And
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some of the members say,
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we want to take you to
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to see something.
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Where would you like to go?
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And they give us some options.
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So we end up going to the
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the ancient city of Byblos.
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And it was an amazing place.
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One of the amazing things
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that as you connect
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with the world of the Bible,
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you see the truth
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of the Scriptures.
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One of the things
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that first struck
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me as they took us
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is there's a little creation
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science.
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He didn't call it this
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the proprietor.
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I think
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he was mainly selling fossils,
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but he's got
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a little museum there
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with all kinds of fossils
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that have been found
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right there in Lebanon,
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right near the town of Byblos.
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And if you've ever read
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through the Bible,
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just the first six,
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eight chapters,
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you read through the flood,
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you know,
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get down to Genesis 9.
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You read through that.
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And if you read
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the secular scientists,
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they say it didn't happen
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like that.
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You know, just a little,
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you know, flood there.
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Yeah, maybe it was big
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flood in the Middle East. But
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I'll tell you, as
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you read the account,
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there is no way
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you can read
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the biblical account
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and not believe
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in a worldwide deluge.
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But more than that,
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if you look at
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the fossil record
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fossils all over the world,
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including right there
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in the Middle East.
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And when you look
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at these fossils,
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don't
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don't believe this narrative
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that a fish just died,
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fell on the bottom of the sea,
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and then sediment
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gradually fell on top of it
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and it fossilized.
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It does not work like that.
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If you look at the bones here,
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if you could see them up
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close there
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and just like the living fish,
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you can see scales on
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some of these fish.
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You can see eyes on them.
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There's been no time for decay.
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Now, I'm not saying that people
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that believe
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in a different world view
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don't have an explanation,
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but the only explanation
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for this
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is that there was a
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catastrophic event.
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And when
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you see it all over the world,
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a catastrophic event,
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basically it is consistent
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with the biblical worldview.
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And so I always enjoy
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looking at fossils,
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seeing this intricate detail
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that showed there.
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I've never seen a fossil
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of something partially decayed.
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Now, I'm sure there are some,
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because there obviously
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were some things
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that were partially decayed
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at the time of the flood,
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but the overwhelming
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majority, vast
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majority are things
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that were alive
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because that's what happened
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during the flood.
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And there's all kinds
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of fossils in this museum.
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And that was just inspiring
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to see
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this evidence
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again of the biblical account.
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Well, on that
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same trip to Lebanon,
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the the field president wanted
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to take us to Tyre
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to the city of Tyre.
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Many of you know, Tyre
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and Sidon, very famous
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biblical sites,
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much in the Bible about Tyre.
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And
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Tyre is
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associated with purple dye.
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So I put a couple
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of different images here
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to kind of challenge you.
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But the best
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purple dye in iniquity
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is said to have come from Tyre,
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that it had originated there.
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So some of you
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remember the story of Lydia,
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the seller of purple
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in the Book of Acts.
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It is believed
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that Lydia got her finest
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purple from Tyre.
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It was imported to Philipi.
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Tyre and purple.
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Why?
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Why do some people have this
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special connection with purple?
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It's often a royalty
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that uses purple.
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The Roman legions,
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I'm told, use purple.
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Here is this iconic Burj
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Al Arab in Dubai.
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You've probably seen this
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seven star hotel in white
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because it's a white structure.
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But at night,
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at least they were
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lighting it that night
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in what color?
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In purple.
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So Tyre is associated
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with purple.
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And really,
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if you have thought much lately
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about the book of
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Daniel, Daniel 2,
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and then Daniel 7
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and 8
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go through
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a series of empires,
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world empires,
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and they walk you
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through Babylon
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and then Medo Persia
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and then Greece and then Rome.
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The interesting thing is
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all these empires
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intersect at Tyre and
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Ezekiel 26 amazing prophecies
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about Tyre in connection
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with Babylon prophesying
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actually
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the destruction of Tyre.
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Look with me at Ezekiel
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the Word of the Lord
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as it appears in Ezekiel 27:7
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and onward,
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For thus says
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the Lord God, behold,
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I will bring against Tyre
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from the north
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
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king of kings,
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with horses and chariots,
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and with horsemen
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and a host of many soldiers.
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He will set up a siege
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wall against you
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and throw up
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a mound against you.
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What do you think happened
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as the Bible prophesy?
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That very thing.
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Nebuchadnezzar besieged
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Tyre as part of his conquest
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of that whole region.
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Nebuchadnezzar, also
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known as Nebuchadnezzar
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II of Babylon
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besieged Tyre
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for some 13 years.
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It was an extended siege.
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Later in history, Alexander
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the Great besieged Tyre.
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So Tyre plays a prominent role
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in these world powers
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that were dominating
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the Middle East.
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There are still Byzantine
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and Roman ruins
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still there in Tyre
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and they took us to see them.
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There is a lot
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that is devoted to burial.
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There is burial crypts.
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There's tombs.
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But one of the things I noticed
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is that virtually
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every tomb
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had been broken into.
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Every tomb.
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I mean,
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think about this for a minute.
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Where did many of the
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people of antiquity
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put their treasures?
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In their tomb with them, right?
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And so you say no surprise
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that grave
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robbers would come there.
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The tour guide who
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was with us, of course, told us
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there was nothing of
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value in those tombs.
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I was a bit skeptical.
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I thought he was maybe
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just trying to curb
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any future attempts.
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But but the point is
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simply this.
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Where, where is the place
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we should put our resources?
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So we try to be saving enough
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so that we can
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have the best casket around?
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No, no.
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The Lord wants us
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investing in His cause,
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laying up our treasures
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in heaven.
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But you see, all through Tyre,
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you see evidence of the Roman
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occupation there.
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You see
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these remnants
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of aqueducts there.
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And then there's this
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amazing Hippodrome,
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a large stadium, huge stadium
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where they had horse races.
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It's only been
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partially reconstructed.
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You can see there in the
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in the background
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some of the bleachers
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that have been reconstructed
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in some of the inset
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pictures on the right.
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You'll see some people
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walking through some of the,
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but this was a vast stadium,
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just like a stadium
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that we would have today,
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perhaps holding as many people
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as a modern day stadium.
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It was huge.
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A lot of the building
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materials have vanished
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because subsequent
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generations, over
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some 2,000 years
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have appropriated
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those things
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for their own homes, their own
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building structures.
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One of the
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connections with
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the biblical world
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I especially enjoyed was this.
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We saw this
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in Tyre, The Olive Press.
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So this is a stone
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press, there
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?mill stone off to the side,
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and they would
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literally crush the olives
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to make olive oil.
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While we were at Middle
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East University,
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one of the places
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where I spoke,
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we have a Seventh-day
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Adventist school
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there in the Middle East
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outside of Beirut.
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One of the union officers
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was giving us
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a little show and tell.
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It was instigated
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actually by his young son there
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who is holding,
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whether you recognize it
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or not,
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some freshly pressed
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pressed olive oil.
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It was just pressed
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a few hours before.
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He was very excited
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and he wanted to show us
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the fresh olive oil.
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And there you see
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the remnants of the olives.
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It's just like a dry pad.
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Everything has been crushed.
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Everything of life
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has been crushed
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out of the olives.
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Now, some of you notice
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the caption on these pictures.
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It says Gethsemane insights.
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Do any of you know
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what Gethsemane means?
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Gethsemane literally
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means the oil press.
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So when Jesus
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went to the
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Garden of Gethsemane,
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where was He going?
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He was going to an oil press.
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And what happened
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to Jesus in Gethsemane?
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Jesus in Gethsemane chose
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He made the
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irrevocable decision.
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Well,
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made a,
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He could have still changed
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the decision on the cross.
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But but He made that decision
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where He said,
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you know, Father,
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please
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have this cup pass from me.
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But He said, nevertheless,
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not my will what?
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But Your will be done.
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And He chose to be crushed.
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He started in a
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very real sense,
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bearing the weight
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of the sin of the world
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in Gethsemane.
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Not that He wasn't
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carrying the weight of sin
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all through His ministry,
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all through His life
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in a very special way.
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It seems like He
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He really starts to experience
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the weight
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of the sins of the world
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in a very unique way
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at Gethsemane.
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And so Jesus basically,
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His life is being crushed out.
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And what comes out is
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we speak of His
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cleansing blood,
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that life,
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His life giving blood.
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But the olive oil is
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another metaphor, right,
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for a healing agency.
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And the only way you get
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the olive
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oil is by the olive
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being destroyed, being crushed.
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And so that's what
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Jesus went through for us.
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And so as we're
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ministering there
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in the Middle East,
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we're seeing this imagery
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of the kind of ministry
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that Jesus gave to us.
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We talk about why
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be involved in ministry.
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It's because you are valuable
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to God.
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It's that
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He gave everything for you.
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And we got that picture again
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there.
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From Tyre we went up to Sidon.
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They're not far apart.
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And in Sidon
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we saw evidence of
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just what I was
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telling you about.
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This was a sea castle,
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a sea citadel in Sidon.
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You can see it there,
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the remnants of it.
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It's still
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fairly well-preserved.
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And if you go out there
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and look at the structures,
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you will see
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Roman pillars
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that have been used
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as building materials.
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There's one of them right there
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as part of the foundation.
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And if you look here
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at this picture,
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if you can see kind of
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in the middle of the picture,
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there's a series
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of Roman pillars
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that have been laid down.
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There's Roman
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pillars interspersed
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throughout the whole structure.
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So if you say, well,
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why don't
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we see
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more Babylonian ruins or
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or ruins
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from the time of Greece
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or even from Rome, it's
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because subsequent conquerors
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would utilize
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the very building materials
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that had been
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utilized previously.
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And so fortunately,
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with Roman columns,
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marble columns,
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they're pretty hard to
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to break up.
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And they made good
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building materials.
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So you can still see them.
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So if you look out
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from that citadel
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at the city of Sidon,
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you see a very
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different picture
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than we'll show you from Dubai.
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But it is an interesting place.
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Lebanon.
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Lebanon has the largest
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Christian population
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in the Middle East.
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And you can see this mix.
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You can see the
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minaret there of a mosque.
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But this interesting
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mix of Islam
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and various
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branches of Christianity
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there in Lebanon.
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Lebanon,
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you know,
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was the site of one of Jesus
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most remarkable cross-cultural
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aspects of His ministry,
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at least from my perspective.
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Jesus had gone out of Galilee
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and He'd gone all the way
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to Tyre and Sidon.
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And there in Mark
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7, we read that
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as He comes to Tyre and Sidon,
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and if you read
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through the account,
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there is this woman there.
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She's a Gentile,
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she's not a Jew,
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and she's asking Jesus
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to do a miracle.
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And Jesus first acts
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like the Jews
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would have expected Him to act.
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I can't help you.
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I'm just sent for the lost
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sheep of the house of Israel.
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But she implores Jesus.
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She said, But,
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but Jesus, even the little dogs
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get crumbs from the table.
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And He responds to her faith.
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And He shows the disciples
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that He's come for everyone.
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And so this picture
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is especially appropriate
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in Lebanon,
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where we have this very cross
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cultural population
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that Jesus ministry
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is for everyone.
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And then as we were walking
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through the streets of Sidon,
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one of our locals said,
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you know,
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those are the baskets
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that the fishermen use.
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You know,
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they're specially slotted.
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So, you know,
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you throw the fish in there
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and the
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the water seeps through.
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But we you know,
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we couldn't help but wonder did
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is that similar
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to the baskets of antiquity,
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that young boy
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carrying just his meager
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supply of loaves and fish,
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do you think he might have
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had something like that?
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Now, I ask you the question
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because think about it
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for a minute.
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You remember the story
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when Jesus fed the multitude.
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He did it on two occasions.
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But when he fed the 5,000,
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that little boy
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just had those five loaves
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and two fish.
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Was that enough
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for the multitude?
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Was that sufficient for them?
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Well, it wasn't
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in itself, right.
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But when he gave it to
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Jesus, Jesus
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multiplied it.
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So don't ever depreciate
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your own resources, okay?
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Don't say, Well,
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I could never do anything
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for the Lord,
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not even here in town,
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because I don't know my Bible
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well enough,
00:15:01.10\00:15:01.70
or I don't have this talent
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or that talent.
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Just use what you have,
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bring your
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barley loaves to Jesus
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and he'll multiply them.
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Camels. Fascinating animals.
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Over 60 times in the Bible.
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Camels are mentioned.
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Did you know that?
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You can look at it.
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Many stories about camels.
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So while we were there
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in the United Arab Emirates,
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after speaking one day,
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they said, well,
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you know,
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there's a little time
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this evening
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you want to come out and
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and see
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some of the local villages.
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So we left the
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we were actually staying.
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They had put us up on a
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manmade island.
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If you're not aware,
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a lot of the coastline
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has been extended
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in places like Dubai
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and other
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of the Emirates there.
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So we were staying
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on a manmade island,
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a huge island,
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multiple
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dwellings
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there, hotels and things.
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And so we went into the
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to the real
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country,
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not something that
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someone built out of the sea.
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And here they are
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training their camels.
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How many of you can imagine
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camels racing?
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That just was not in my
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vocabulary.
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We didn't
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actually see them racing,
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but supposedly
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they had been
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the end of the day,
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and they're
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bringing them in now.
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There's also camels
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that are feeding out
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alongside the road,
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and Sonja
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would not miss getting
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close up to the camels
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and a very gracious herdsman.
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These are wealthy folks
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that are herding camels.
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They tell us the camels list,
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you know, the low end
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for like $10,000.
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So this is not inexpensive.
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And he's out there driving his,
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you know, late
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model pickup or four wheel
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drive out in the desert,
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herding, herding cattle,
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camels, not cattle.
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Here is that
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we stopped at a camel farm.
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And they're interesting
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creatures.
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They're very curious,
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the camels are.
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We were kind of curious
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about the locals, too.
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And this connected us
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with Middle
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Eastern hospitality.
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You know what Paul said
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in Hebrews 13?
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He said, Don't neglect
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to show hospitality
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to strangers
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for thereby
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some have entertained
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angels unawares.
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Now, we were under no delusion.
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We were not angels,
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but we saw some of the
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owners of the camels
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in a little, they
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came kind of like,
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as I understand it,
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they have like a camp
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where they stay during the day.
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And then they have
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their nice homes
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where they go in the evenings.
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So they're kind of in these,
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these humble
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dwellings where they
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can get out of the sun.
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They've got some laborers
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that work for them
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and actually do the
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a lot of the dirty work
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with the camels.
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And
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think about this.
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Think,
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think about this scenario
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with Abraham.
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I want you to connect this
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and I'll tell you
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what happened to us.
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In Genesis 18,
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Abraham is sitting there
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at his tent and he looks out
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and he sees three men.
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And what does he do?
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Did he say, Boy,
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I hope they don't
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come over here
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and ask me for something
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because, you know,
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what does he do?
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He runs to them.
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He says, You've got to come,
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you've got to come,
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you've got to eat.
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You've got to,
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you know, sit down with me.
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Well,
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this is exactly
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what happened to us.
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We wanted to take a picture
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of these guys.
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He was okay
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to take some pictures
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of their village
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and they said, No, no, no, no.
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You have to come and
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sit down with us.
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You know, you have to,
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you know, fellowship with us.
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So it's just it's this
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this Middle Eastern hospitality
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that that
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they want to extend to you.
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And it
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it reminds us, well,
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maybe we would be better.
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Maybe I myself would be better
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to have more of that Middle
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Eastern hospitality.
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It wasn't
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because they were poor.
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Sometimes people think,
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oh, you know,
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poor people
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are more likely to share
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these people are very wealthy.
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Okay?
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They were,
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you know, status wise,
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they were probably high
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above us.
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It's you know,
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if you look at income,
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they were far above us
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living in these, you know,
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these estates somewhere.
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But they wanted to extend their
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their hospitality to us.
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Peter put it this way.
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Above all things have fervent
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love for one
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another,
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for love
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will cover a multitude of sins.
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Be hospitable to one another
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without grumbling.
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Well, let's bring you to Dubai.
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So we ministered in Lebanon
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for a while,
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and then we went
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to to Dubai and the other
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Emirates there,
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like I said, seven Emirates,
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kind of like the United States,
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50 states.
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The United Arab
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Emirates has seven Emirates.
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So we were doing
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most of our work
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an hour outside of Dubai
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and another emirate called Ras
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al Khaimah,
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which is where our
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field headquarters are,
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the Gulf field headquarters
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for the Adventist Church.
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But we spent
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a little bit of time in Dubai
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and some of Dubai
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looks like it did,
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people tell me,
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40, 50 years ago.
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And you'll find these
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open air markets
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where they're selling
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everything from
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spices to perfumes to
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upholstery, rugs and clothing.
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And you'll look at some areas
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and you'll say,
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from what
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the locals tell us,
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I mean, this looks pretty
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similar to
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how things were decades ago.
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And you can see the,
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you know, the mosques
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and the minarets.
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This is
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right up against Dubai Creek,
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which is actually
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a large body of water.
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You wouldn't call it a creek
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here in Fort Wayne.
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You'd call it a mighty river.
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And in this old area of town,
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there's
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this very
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inconspicuous entrance that our
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our local Adventist
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tour guide, actually
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one of the pastors took us to.
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And this is the Dubai
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Municipality Museum.
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And it goes through
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a history of Dubai
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from the fifties up
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until the seventies.
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There was nothing there,
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just a
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it was a trading community.
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They were
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specialized in pearl diving,
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at least up
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in the early 1900s
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and commerce.
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So they were a
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trading community.
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But today it's very different.
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The world's tallest building,
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the Burj Khalifa,
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is there in Dubai.
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The Dubai mall is a huge,
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opulent mall.
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They told me, don't
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go into any of the shops
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thinking you'll buy anything,
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You know,
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$7,000 price tags on handbags
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and things.
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So, yes,
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we didn't do any
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shopping there.
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They have a full aquarium
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in the mall. Okay.
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So it's it's
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some people would say
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is kind of over the top.
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Every half hour
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huge fountains out
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just beyond the Burj
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this this tallest building.
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People gathering around,
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you can see
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all the people there
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in the evening
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and lighted
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fountains,
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choreographed music shows.
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They're trying to make this
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a world destination.
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And it's working.
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People from all over the world
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coming there
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and they're crowding in.
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This is a picture
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from the evening.
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Okay.
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It's like nine or ten at night
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and people just crowding there
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into Dubai, into this city
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that's been built up
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out of the desert.
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Here's a view
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from the 124th
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floor of the Burj Khalifa.
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By the way, there's
00:22:06.15\00:22:06.82
no roof there.
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So when Sonja and I
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went up there, it's
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kind of an interesting thing
00:22:09.42\00:22:10.89
to look up
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and you're seeing the clouds,
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you know,
00:22:13.19\00:22:13.40
kind of pass over you there.
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It doesn't rain much.
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So I guess they're
00:22:17.20\00:22:17.73
not too worried
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about needing a lot of shelter.
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The current ruler,
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the Sheikh here,
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he has a quote
00:22:26.64\00:22:27.81
that appears there in the Burj,
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The word impossible is not
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in the leaders?ctionaries.
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So this is
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his philosophy and
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the philosophy
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of many in leadership
00:22:38.65\00:22:39.75
there in Dubai.
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And as I thought about that,
00:22:40.96\00:22:42.02
I thought about
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another leader's words,
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the King of kings.
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And Matthew 17,
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He said, truly,
00:22:48.36\00:22:49.13
I tell you,
00:22:49.13\00:22:50.07
if you have faith
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as small as a mustard seed,
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you can say
00:22:52.53\00:22:52.93
to this mountain, move
00:22:53.07\00:22:53.94
from here to there
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and it will move.
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Nothing will be impossible
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for you.
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God wants us to have
00:22:57.97\00:22:58.71
that same vision
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that can do vision.
00:22:59.51\00:23:00.88
So there they are,
00:23:00.88\00:23:01.51
reclaiming land,
00:23:01.51\00:23:02.68
building land out of the ocean.
00:23:02.68\00:23:04.35
They're building
00:23:04.35\00:23:04.88
these great memorials
00:23:04.88\00:23:06.61
there in Dubai, if you will.
00:23:06.61\00:23:08.22
And I ask, well,
00:23:08.22\00:23:08.75
what would happen to us
00:23:08.75\00:23:09.72
if our attitude was that
00:23:09.72\00:23:10.89
we were going to build
00:23:10.89\00:23:11.79
memorials for God?
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What would our memorials
00:23:12.95\00:23:14.06
look like?
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Would they look like Dubai
00:23:14.69\00:23:15.49
or would
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they look like
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something different?
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After all, Jesus said,
00:23:17.36\00:23:19.03
we already looked
00:23:19.03\00:23:19.96
all power is given unto me,
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so there's not a limitation.
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It was interesting to me
00:23:24.23\00:23:25.47
as we looked at the different
00:23:25.47\00:23:26.63
aspects of that Burj Khalifa,
00:23:26.63\00:23:28.47
it was like a pillar
00:23:29.74\00:23:30.64
of fire by night.
00:23:30.64\00:23:32.67
You know, the Bible talks
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about an even more,
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to me,
00:23:34.74\00:23:35.31
impressive pillar of fire,
00:23:35.38\00:23:36.91
was God's presence Himself.
00:23:36.91\00:23:39.28
And His presence
00:23:39.28\00:23:41.38
blessing the sanctuary
00:23:41.38\00:23:42.75
with His physical presence,
00:23:42.75\00:23:44.32
the Shekhinah glory.
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On the way back
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from Qatar to
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we flew back through Dallas.
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They had a
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they had a documentary,
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a documentary
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that dealt
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with beauty, architecture
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and your brain.
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I hadn't really
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known anything
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about neuroscience
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and how it relates to
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architecture.
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And these researchers
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were talking about
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how architecture,
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how buildings
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can either put you
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in a frame of mind
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that's relaxing and calming,
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or it can agitate you.
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And I was thinking
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about the sanctuary
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and all the symmetry.
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They were
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talking about these different
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aspects of ideal buildings,
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and it sounded like
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in Dubai
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they were trying to imitate
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the sanctuary
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and it sounded like
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the scientists
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were speaking about
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God's sanctuary.
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Do you know that the Burj
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Khalifa has its own scent?
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Special aromas
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that have been
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blended there infuse
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through the air conditioning?
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This is not original.
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In Exodus 30,
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a special
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aroma was associated
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with the sanctuary.
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So all these things
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that really speak to us
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of God's memorials.
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He wants to create something
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that powerfully impacts
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senses of people today.
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And what is that?
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Well,
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I hope you're getting
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some encouragement, whether you
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whether you resonate
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and you think, well,
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these folks must be inspired
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by God in Dubai.
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I don't know what
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their inspiration is.
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Some people say,
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Oh, it's just commercialism.
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But Jesus said,
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we need to learn
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even from people
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that don't claim to follow God.
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And I think
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most of the people
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there, you'll find
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those say
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they're following God.
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But let me
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give you a final lesson.
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And it comes from Seventh-day
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Adventist history. And
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you may
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think that the time has passed.
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There's no reason for us
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to build memorials for God.
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But our early pioneers
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in the Seventh-day Adventist
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church realized
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we needed to be building
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memorials.
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Let me put it this way for you.
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This is from the book
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Councils on Stewardship.
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It says, Can you not see that
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He, God, wants you
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to use your means
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in helping to build
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meetinghouse churches,
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established sanitariums,
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helping to start schools.
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Now listen here.
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This is really significant
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because some people say
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the end is too close.
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A great work must be done
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all through the world.
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And let no one
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conclude that
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because the end is near,
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that there is no need
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of special effort
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to build up
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the various institutions
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as the cause shall demand.
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When the Lord shall bid
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us make no further effort
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to build meeting houses
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and establish
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schools, sanitariums
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and publishing institutions.
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It will be time for us
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to fold our hands
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and let the Lord
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close up the work.
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But now is our opportunity
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to show our zeal for God
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and our love for humanity.
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Here is the concluding message
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for us.
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Can we catch the vision
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of people over there
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in the Middle East
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who are trying to do
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great things?
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I know,
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I know you've caught the vision
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in many respects
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because you're doing
00:26:49.97\00:26:50.54
that here in Fort Wayne, right?
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You said
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we're going to step out
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beyond our means.
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We're not just saying
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we've got enough money
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from oil fields
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that we can build,
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but we're going on
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God's program
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of stepping out in faith
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and doing things for Him.
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I encourage all of you
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to ask the Lord
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what He's calling you to do,
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to continue to partner with us
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and the things
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we've undertaken jointly
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and to go forward in His grace.
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God is calling us
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out of our comfort zone
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to make a difference
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on planet Earth.
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I don't know
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what He's inviting you to do,
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but I know the Holy Spirit
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will guide you
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as you seek to partner
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with Jesus.
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And by the way,
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thank you for each one of you
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who is partnering with us,
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making this ministry possible.
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It is only by
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generous donations
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from people like you
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that keep
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Timeless Healing
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Insights in production
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and going out
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throughout the world.
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If you want to be
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a part of this program
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through your prayers
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and through your
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financial support,
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you can meet us
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at
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www.TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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Again,
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that's
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www.TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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