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yes it's book by book here we are once
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again at the Quinta Christian Centre in
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Shropshire England amateur booze joint
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here once again by poor black 'm and
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also by georg Vova who's our special
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guest today the founder of operation of
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mobilisation so thank you thank you
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George for joining us
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it's a privilege let's go for it all
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very good well we're now in study number
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8 of the book of Proverbs chapters 22 to
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24 where I think I could say that we
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shall learn of the father is delighted
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by the sons heart and voice and so we
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can start by looking at chapter 22 and
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why don't I begin with verse 6 train a
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child in the way he should go and when
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he is old he will not turn from it the
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rich rule over the poor and the borrower
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is servant to the lender and then
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turning over the page to verse 11 he who
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loves a pure heart and his speeches
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gracious will have the king for his
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friend the eyes of the Lord keep watch
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over knowledge for he frustrates the
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words of the unfaithful so we're
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learning I'd say here but the rewards of
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humility are riches and honor and life
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and he ever six in all of many proverbs
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actually the tears of the discipline and
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the education of children actually
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what's the wisdom would you say friends
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of God in that area of life well I think
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one of the important things about that
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verse six is that it's it's not a
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guarantee but a die training the church
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praying the child in the way that he
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should go in it and when he's only won't
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turn from it because sometimes people
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say well I trained my children the way
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they should go and they they did depart
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from it so the Bible's not true no no
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all the way through all the book of
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Proverbs it's saying listen if you
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follow the path of wisdom it's this is
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the way it's likely to turn out it's a
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guide not an absolute guarantee so you
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can't just take that check and waiver
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your fist at God sort of thing it's not
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like that and that's the what true for
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the Proverbs as a whole but the key
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thing here is that our children are
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gonna be indoctrinated by the world that
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put onto the TV
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books everything so people are trying to
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teach them and put doctrine into their
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head all the time and the Lord God says
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all the way through scripture you make
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sure that you are putting my doctrine
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into their heads as they grow up you
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can't just abandon them say I will let
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them decide whatever they want no you
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you teach them and lead them with
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patience and love not sort of legalism
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and harsh treatment that's not gonna win
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them to Christ and then when it talks
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about the rods use the rod of discipline
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so some people go oh that just means
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like physical beatings and things
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literally that can be how people just
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say that the Bible commands physical
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beings now the rod of discipline think
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of how the Lord uses his rod of
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discipline present it's a whole range of
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things to teaches and plead with us and
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winners by love and guide us the rod of
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a shepherd it's to guide the sheep not
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to hit the sheep so he's a guide the
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Sheep and always remember Deuteronomy
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6:4 to wait one of those you know hear o
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Israel the Lord our God is one and
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that's one of the most famous verses in
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the Bible and straight after he says
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talk about these things with your
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children as you walking along the road
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and sat at the table at home just let it
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be part of your family life and then
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they'll learn this and come and grow up
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as fish you a new country the provost
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this talk talk talk it's like family
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talk you're running from one verse to
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the next which is what you're doing
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family life you're not dealing with big
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subjects the rich one day money the next
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day school the next didn't know it's all
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running through the breakfast table and
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everything that's why we get these busy
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verses one after another next one's on
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but the one about the rich for example
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the rich have always ruled over the poor
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over 7 so looking at that passage now I
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mean how is the Christian supposed to
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live well we would say in the light of
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eternity well I think it's one of the
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greatest challenges to find biblical
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balance in the handling of our finance
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I think of randy alcorn brilliant book
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treasurer principle and now there's a
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brand new book called patrons that shows
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how in history often when there were
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mighty movements or mighty men and women
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of God Dodd raised
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patron someone who knew how to make
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finance or maybe I had even inherited
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finance and they started giving
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generously to that person so I think
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when we read these different scriptures
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about finance we need to have a lot of
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wisdom because it's so important Jesus
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spoke so much about about money I'm now
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very involved in fundraising which some
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people like to look down on even in my
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early days I thought fundraising no we
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just ask God and he supplies but the
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Bible teaches clearly he supplies
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through people and if they disobey if
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they decide we don't like these
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scriptures about generosity we're gonna
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feel the impact of that and so to me
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communication comes together with prayer
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and I just feel when we're in the book
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of Proverbs which I've been in almost
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every day these 58 years there are
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things that sometimes the way we think
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they don't really make sense and what
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are we going to say of some of the other
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tough parts of the Old Testament and
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this is where I think Christians have to
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learn more to live a little more with
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mystery things that we may not fully
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understand even one verse that agnostics
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and those attack in the Bible they take
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certain verses and just write whole
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pages sort of proving this is not true
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and what you said is is just so and so
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important these are these are guidelines
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and there is a bit of a mystery how this
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works out in my life you know this week
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exactly actually when you talk about the
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riches you will remember it's a John
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Lang who was one of the great animals
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and we I met him and he poured out money
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he was he had a lot of money and his
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trusts are still his trusted so giving
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when and when he died his actual
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personal estate was left at 178 pounds
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he'd given so much away this is a
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wonderful testament it sounds like John
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Wesley yeah yeah favorite so he was the
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same wasn't it
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well we come now to actually whatever
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chord the 30 saying
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otherwise do you see that from verse 17
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through to chapter 24 actually what do
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these sayings amount to and how do they
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teach us to trust in the Lord
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well the the like a summary of the book
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of Proverbs and they begin in verses 17
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to 21 really with that sort of whoever
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as he is to hear let him hear
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so it's pay attention get this stuff
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into your heart listen carefully and the
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purpose of them verse 19 is so that your
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trust may be in the Lord and that helps
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us to understand all these proverbs then
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not to be sort of like legalistic things
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but they're all of the design to make us
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trust in the Lord 30 profound truths
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here I sort of marked them all out in my
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Bible so I can see clearly that what the
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30 are and then if you work that out
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yourself you'll see there are 30 and
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some of them are quite long you'll see
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in chapter 23 the longest batch of all
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is a warning against alcohol in 23
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verses 29 to 35 but you'll see it so
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it's a creates like bringing all the
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wisdom and the book of proverbs down to
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these 30 sayings that channel
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they shine the light into our life and
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reveal our sin and challengers and but
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the point of all of them as it says at
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the beginning is that we will trust in
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the Lord and if I could just pick one
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the 14th of the 30 sayings is in chapter
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23 verses 17 to 18 do not let your heart
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envy sinners but always be zealous for
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the fear of the Lord I love that one
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because almost the whole thing could be
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caught up in that because we're four
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envious of the sinners we want to do the
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sinful things and say no now let your
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heart be zealous for the fear of the
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Lord and then you won't be interested in
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those things and you mentioned alcohol
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remember to go Mia's as we've seen
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before some of these proverbs deal with
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food alcohol money wealth actually there
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we are in chapter 24 verses 3 to 4 with
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this description of building a beautiful
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house Jesus dealt with some of these
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issues in the seven on the month
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as well they're so important I mean
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aren't quote spiritual things more than
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eating and drinking and earning money
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what do you think George well I think
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God has to be involved in all of it and
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I thank God for an emphasis that's come
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from different people and I feel it
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deeply we cannot continue to put the
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secular and the sacred into separate
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worlds it comes together and I think
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proverbs helps us do that
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proverbs has in the mid just so many
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amazing nuggets and we must not miss in
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this chapter 24 verse 17 do not glow
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when your enemy Falls I mean that is
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radical I mean the whole of society when
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your enemy gets knocked out man this is
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go down and have a beer and this is why
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our biblical faith rather than just
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religion is so radical love and grace
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it's different to it I remember as a
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young Christian love your enemies I
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immediately repented of all my bad
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thoughts toward the Russians if I know
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you going to Russia and loving Russians
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I've just been there again do not gloat
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when your enemy Falls I think of that
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word in Philippians as steaming others
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better than yourself I mean we don't see
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this practice so much even among the
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Lord's people because it's so
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revolutionary and proverbs I think is a
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such a great foundation book for the
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whole of the New Testament with you know
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the revolution of love and first
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Corinthians 13 and the fruit of the
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Spirit you know Galatians just exciting
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to me I keep reading in and keep
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memorizing these verses it's very
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practical you something it's just one of
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the great things that defines a
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Christian he or she loves their enemies
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and that set us apart we get some more
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wise sayings here in chapter 24 from
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verse 23 onwards look at them look of us
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29 see where in verse 29 there do not
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say I'll do to him as he has done to me
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I'll pay that man back
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what he did well we could ask ourselves
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why justice and honesty should matter so
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much to followers of Jesus in a world
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where injustice and deception actually
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pretty common it's the normal way of
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what makes us hold them so I well I love
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this little collection that's headed
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further sayings of the white Zia because
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it's sort of saying we've laid out all
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these behavior things and in a way in
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this little section it's zooming in on
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what's going on inside us so that it's
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like when we say you know do we want
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revenge
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are we deceitful inside and it's not
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always apparent on the surface what's
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going on inside and that's so important
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the integrity that's going on inside
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that art the inner life is the the
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fountain for our outer life and I love
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Psalm 51 I was reading it this morning
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when I first woke up Psalm 51 the famous
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song by David and he's repenting of his
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sin and he knows that verse 6
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surely you desire truth in the inner
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parts you teach me wisdom in the inmost
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place of verse 10 creating me a pure
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heart O God and renew a steadfast spirit
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within me so it's that point of saying
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okay so I'm not an alcoholic and I I'm
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not greedy and things like that yeah but
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what about your heart is your heart pure
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and full of love and when your enemy
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Falls do you love him or do you glow a
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ring so I love that little collection
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that zoom anything to integrity and
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honesty and love in the inner man yes
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and of course oh is this targeting of
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the people against the poor which is
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much of our society today really when
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you think of that the the wagering
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that's done over sport results you know
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you could bet about that or bingo
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parlors or casinos or and it's always
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targeting the poor the poor if I
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couldn't just win that I just put a bit
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of money down the odds actually against
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winning the Powerball to the jackpot in
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the USA is 195 million to one and yet
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the polls to put that money down
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hoping hoping hoping that is unfair
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treatment of the poor always here's a
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sluggard again o converse 30 on words of
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chapter 24 so he keeps popping up well
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it's not that we're lazy because we're
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tired
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proverbs seems to teach us that usually
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we're tired because we are lazy is that
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how far is that something to repent of
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how far is that a sin personally I've
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found among the many young people and
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about two hundred thousand have worked
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with om that many Christian young people
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in Christian homes they tend to put
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themselves down they tend to be
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judgmental against themselves and not
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realizing we're all different we all
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have different levels of energy and
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often tiredness is not because a person
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is lazy people get tired and it may also
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be diet it may be some other health
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factor I've always from the early days
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encouraged people we have a great
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medical system it's not perfect we
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should go there once a year and find out
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what's going on with with our bodies so
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I'm just always going back to that
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beautiful word balance that left one
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scripture bring other scriptures into
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balance or is that strong attack against
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laziness we need to be careful of that
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but we also need to have a right
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attitude toward ourselves especially if
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we have weaknesses I've had certain
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weaknesses I've struggled with all my
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life and my poor wife has put up with
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you know 54 years I thought I'd be way
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more spiritual by now so you can't get
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really depressing so I think we gotta
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take that whole message and put it
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together rather than a verse here and a
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verse there and then we walk out feeling
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really bad of course when we feel bad we
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should repent if it is specific sin but
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not if it's Justine enemies he's the
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accuser of the Brethren and especially
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when young men young women as well have
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failed in any area in the sexual area
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that the accuser of the Brethren he
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wants to really squelch them at that
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point I once had a failure with a
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pornographic magazine in a tree in the
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woods I wish I could get my victorious
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life testimony but it made a fool out of
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me for a few minutes
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and boy the enemy just tried to squelch
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me how can you be a Christian leader how
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can you ever preach again you know but I
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just claimed you know John to chapter
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one confess your sin he's faithful and
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just to forgive you and sexual sin has
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an extra dose of hyper guilt that is
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destroying many young people today and
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older ones because they don't understand
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grace and forgiveness and the power of
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the blood of Christ
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and the balance of Scripture Oh George
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the practical nature of this book of
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Proverbs it speaks to us from page to
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page from verse to verse as well and as
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we wind up we can ask ourselves what is
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the basic result of all of our reading
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upon our own lifestyle but our own
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service in this world one of our great
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English writers of many years ago was
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Charles Dickens everything done some
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words that he once said he wrote some
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very fine men and women might as well
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have been born caterpillars for any good
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they do or any impression they make on
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the world we can ask ourselves what am I
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in this world for what kind of impact
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can I make upon people even down the
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road but my workmates I'm here for the
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Lord Jesus Christ as one of his
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ambassadors I speak that our prayer for
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today
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