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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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 Our passion is to experience and express grace. Join us.

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 Open your Bibles, if you will, or if you don't have one, in one form or another.

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 Yes, you may pull out your phones and turn them on, if there's a Bible on there.

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 Romans chapter 12.

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 You'll see there, if you don't have a Bible, there should be one in the pew pockets in front of you.

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 And you can turn to page 948.

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 We're going to be looking at just a couple of verses.

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 I'm going to read from Romans 12, verses 9 through 10, and then verse 15, which will be the primary focus of our time together.

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 Let love be genuine.

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 Abhor what is evil.

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 Hold fast to what is good.

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 Love one another with brotherly affection.

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 And then verse 15.

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 Rejoice with those who rejoice.

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 And weep with those who weep.

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 Let's pray together as we enter into the study of God's word.

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 Father, would you meet us and speak to us through your word.

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 Speak into our hearts so that we might see the glory of your face.

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 And we might be filled with the hope of your coming.

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 Come and meet us in that place where we are today.

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 And make yourself known.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 We're in this series through the summer of one another.

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 Talking about gospel community.

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 And as Will began last week, the core of all of this is that we love one another.

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 Father, this is the one primary quality that distinguishes us from everybody else in the world.

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 It's not the crosses we wear around our necks.

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 It's not the bumper stickers on our car.

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 It's not the causes that we are so passionate about.

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 It is the way we love one another.

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 That's how the world will know that Jesus is in our midst.

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 And so we see here, this text, what Paul is doing in Romans, is unpacking that.

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 We have to see it in context, though.

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 What Paul has done from chapter 1 all the way through chapter 11 is to lay out for us this glorious picture of what Christ has done.

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 All that he has done for us.

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 Who we are in him.

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 And the hope we have in Christ.

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 And then you get to chapter 12 and there's this word, therefore.

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 Which calls our attention back to all that's just been said.

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 And then we are called there to present our bodies as living sacrifices.

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 That we, I mean, simply put, we are to, in response to all that Jesus is, lay down our lives.

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 Not just for God himself, but to lay our lives down for one another.

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 A few verses pass.

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 In verse 5 he says, we are members of one another.

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 We do not live in just proximity with other individuals.

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 We are not to live in isolation.

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 God has made us into a body, a family that is intricately, deeply united to one another.

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 That's who we are.

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 And that is why love, as he says here in verses 9 and 10, is key.

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 It is primary.

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 We cannot minimize it.

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 We cannot do without it.

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 Love is everything in gospel community.

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 But what does that love look like?

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 And from verse 9 down through really the end of the chapter, Paul is describing for us.

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 He's unpacking this whole concept of what it means to love one another.

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 And in the midst of that unpacking, we have this verse.

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 It says, to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

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 And it's very easy for us as we read through Paul.

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 We could read through that and say, oh, okay, yeah, understand it.

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 Over and done.

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 We just kind of blow past it.

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 But in this short little verse, Paul is saying a lot.

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 And I want us to unpack that together this morning.

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 The first thing he's telling us here in this verse is he's telling us a lot about what life is.

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 And life is a mixed bag.

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 There is rejoicing.

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 There's weeping.

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 Life has its share, a wonderful share of joys and blessings and pleasures.

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 Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 7 says,

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 Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart.

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 For God has already approved what you do.

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 When we enjoy the pleasures of this life, God approves.

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 In fact, more than that, he's the one that has poured them out for us.

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 And what Paul's doing, he's combating an error here that was very common then.

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 But I also think it's very present among us that there's something less.

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 There's something inferior about what is material, what is physical, what we experience in this life.

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 There's something that we're not supposed to enjoy it too much.

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 That's just not spiritual.

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 Well, yes, what we experience is broken and corrupt.

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 It does not have the power to satisfy us.

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 And it can be abused.

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 We should not put our hopes there.

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 But they are good.

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 All things in God's creation are good because he declared them to be good.

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 And so we can rejoice in these good things.

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 One of my great pleasures is just sitting out on my patio with my bride of 37 years and enjoying an evening.

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 I love the smell of burning fat.

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 I love perfectly steeped tea.

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 Or fresh bread out of the oven.

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 You kind of get a theme here.

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 A lot of my pleasures are things that I intake.

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 I can listen to harmonies and music that when they're perfectly together, it brings tears to my eyes.

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 In all of these things, we are to see them as gifts of God.

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 To give thanks for them.

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 To enjoy them.

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 Don't minimize them.

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 Enjoy them.

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 Because God is showing his goodness to us.

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 That's one side.

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 There's another side.

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 Life is hard.

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 There is this erroneous, equally erroneous view.

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 That these pleasures are the norm.

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 This is the way life should be.

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 And when it's not, we get frustrated.

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 We can be shaken.

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 We might even get angry.

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 As much pleasure as we can experience in this life, this life, this world, and all that is in it is deeply broken.

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 The pleasures of God that's not what is normal.

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 We live in a world of cancer.

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 Of divorce.

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 Of little boys dying.

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 It's a world that leaves us empty.

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 And in many ways, it fights against us.

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 I feel like I'm constantly at war with my body and my yard.

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 I can make my yard look really good.

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 For a couple minutes.

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 And then it says to me, wait to see what's coming.

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 Because of sin, the world is cursed.

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 Every last millimeter of it.

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 Nothing is escaped.

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 It is not the way it should be.

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 It's not the way it was.

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 It is not the way it will be.

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 But in this between time, what we will experience in this life is pain and hardship and trouble.

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 Am I just being too negative?

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 Am I just being too negative?

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 I'm actually trying to save you from deep disappointment when it does not turn out the way you think it should.

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 It's normal.

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 It's normal.

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 It's normal.

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 Again, from Ecclesiastes 1.13.

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 He writes, it is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

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 He's talking about life.

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 This is the norm.

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 So, too many of us just go through life with the idea that things are just supposed to work out.

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 Pain and suffering are the exception.

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 And I think where a lot of this idea comes from is that we think we have become so technologically and scientifically advanced that we can actually put an end to the trouble and the hardship and pain.

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 But all we can do is as we maybe solve one issue, we create five more.

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 We still die.

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 We all will.

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 We will all hurt.

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 We can't escape it.

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 We live in a world that's full of hardship, disappointment, and tragedy, and no amount of scientific or technological advance can do anything about it.

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 Not until the day that Jesus comes and makes all things new.

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 That said, Paul now comes and charges the hearers of this letter with, how do you love in a world like this?

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 How do you love?

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 I mean, in this world where, as one pastor told me, seven out of ten people that you look at will be suffering and the other three will be.

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 How do you love others in that kind of world?

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 Well, he said, it's very simple.

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 You rejoice with those who are rejoicing.

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 And you weep with those who weep.

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 Why do we need to be commanded to rejoice with those who rejoice?

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 Because it's an act of faith.

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 Let me illustrate why faith is required for us to rejoice with our brothers and sisters when they are experiencing God's gifts.

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 During the early years of our caregiving with my mother-in-law, we were in Atlanta, and I had a good, one of my best friends was also in a caregiving stage with his father.

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 His father was a whole lot more difficult.

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 He was, they'd try to put him in a sister living home or a nursing home, and he'd get kicked out because he was so abusive.

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 And my friend was an only child, so the weight of all of that was on him.

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 And so we would get together and talk about the gospel to one another in the midst of these struggles.

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 Well, after a couple of years of this, his father died.

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 And my friend inherited a pretty sweet inheritance from me because he was the only child.

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 And so with that, he sold his house, a simple house that he'd been living in, bought a lake house and a boat.

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 And then on Facebook, I kept seeing day after day after day pictures of the boat in the new kitchen in the lake house.

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 Now, was that easy for me to rejoice with him?

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 You know what I did?

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 I quit following him on Facebook.

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 Because I wasn't there.

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 I was still caregiving.

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 I was not going to come into a nice inheritance.

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 There will be, would be no lake house or boat.

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 And I struggled.

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 When our brothers and sisters enter into those good gifts, those pleasures that God gives, most of us are not going to be in that state.

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 We're going to be in that state.

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 We're going to be in that state.

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 We're going to be on the other side.

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 We are still in the normal life.

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 We're in that state.

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 Where it hurts.

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 Where there's toil and hardship and envy can make it extremely difficult for us to rejoice when others are experiencing these blessings.

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 I mean how can I rejoice in this couple's pregnancy when me and my wife can't get there

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 how can I rejoice in this couple's anniversary

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 when I'm living in this big alone called divorce how can I rejoice

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 when they are laughing and celebrating and I have trouble holding back the tears

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 the love we are required called to by God through Paul here

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 is that we get outside of our self-focused self-centered look at life in our neediness

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 and enter into those that I am a member with to enter into that joy and celebration

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 I am to celebrate with them and why is that so important

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 because when we join in the celebration of someone else we intensify it

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 it's not the same when we celebrate alone

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 I'm close very close to meeting my 10th grandchild Nora

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 you've probably heard about her well you will

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 you know it's because when I'm happy about the birth of Nora

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 it's not the same if I'm doing it in isolation

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 why do we have parties at special occasions

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 why do weddings have all these guests to come

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 it is because it's the gathering

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 it's the body and the fellowship

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 that makes the celebration so much richer and fuller

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 and so to help and to love

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 we enter into that celebration

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 with our brothers and sisters

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 our participation enhances those pleasures for them

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 and this is why Paul calls it a living sacrifice

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 in our living

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 we lay aside

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 the attention and the help that we want

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 we lay aside this sense of neediness

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 and we rejoice that these

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 our brothers and sisters at this moment aren't there

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 then in the same way

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 when the normalcy of life continues or crashes in

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 we need to be there

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 ready

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 to not just enter into their celebration

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 but we enter into their pain

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 their weeping

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 their hardship

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 their toil

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 their discouragement

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 and this calls us to identify

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 to identify

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 with our brothers and sisters

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 in their pain

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 we are not called

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 to stop their weeping

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 we are not called

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 to fix

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 their problem

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 we are called

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 to enter into the

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 to their pain

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 to the point

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 that we feel it

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 as acutely

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 as if

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 it were our own

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 there's too many of us

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 I think are in the habit

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 of

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 when we try to help

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 those who are suffering

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 we do it

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 from a distance

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 we do

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 like I call

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 we lob these

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 comfort grenades

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 from a distance

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 words of wisdom

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 theological

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 philosophical

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 truths

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 we kind of

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 lob them in there

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 that don't do

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 anything

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 to actually help

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 we need to

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 quit

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 telling people

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 when they go through

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 hardship

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 that God is sovereign

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 he is

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 but it doesn't

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 help

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 they don't need

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 these

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 truths

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 they don't need

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 this

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 these ideas

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 they don't need

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 understanding

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 they need

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 somebody

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 they don't need

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 somebody to

00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.860
 explain to them

00:22:35.860 --> 00:22:36.759
 that God has a

00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:37.279
 purpose

00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.840
 or that this

00:22:40.840 --> 00:22:41.820
 awful thing

00:22:41.820 --> 00:22:43.220
 that has happened

00:22:43.220 --> 00:22:44.039
 to them

00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:46.420
 is somehow

00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:47.039
 good

00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:52.140
 cancer is not

00:22:52.140 --> 00:22:52.460
 good

00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:55.100
 it never has

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 been

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 it never will

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 be

00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.539
 death of a

00:22:59.539 --> 00:22:59.920
 child

00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:01.099
 is never

00:23:01.099 --> 00:23:02.160
 good

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:06.900
 betrayal of a

00:23:06.900 --> 00:23:07.259
 spouse

00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:08.079
 is never

00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:09.279
 good

00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.279
 it is far

00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:11.259
 too normal

00:23:11.259 --> 00:23:14.639
 in this world

00:23:14.639 --> 00:23:15.940
 this cursed

00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:16.539
 world that we

00:23:16.539 --> 00:23:17.160
 live in

00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:18.099
 and God

00:23:18.099 --> 00:23:18.559
 does not

00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:19.039
 promise

00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:20.339
 that things

00:23:20.339 --> 00:23:20.779
 are going

00:23:20.779 --> 00:23:21.139
 to

00:23:21.139 --> 00:23:22.920
 turn around

00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:23.379
 and be

00:23:23.380 --> 00:23:24.480
 good

00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:24.500
 good

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:26.080
 in this

00:23:26.080 --> 00:23:26.540
 life

00:23:26.540 --> 00:23:29.020
 yes

00:23:29.020 --> 00:23:30.400
 he does

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:31.440
 in some

00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:31.840
 mysterious

00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:32.440
 way

00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:33.300
 when it's

00:23:33.300 --> 00:23:33.880
 all said

00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:34.360
 and done

00:23:34.360 --> 00:23:35.040
 he can

00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:35.780
 take those

00:23:35.780 --> 00:23:36.440
 things

00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:38.040
 and redeem

00:23:38.040 --> 00:23:38.620
 them

00:23:38.620 --> 00:23:39.940
 and do

00:23:39.940 --> 00:23:40.520
 good things

00:23:40.520 --> 00:23:41.080
 for us

00:23:41.080 --> 00:23:41.560
 but those

00:23:41.560 --> 00:23:42.020
 things in

00:23:42.020 --> 00:23:42.480
 themselves

00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:44.140
 are not

00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:44.800
 good

00:23:44.800 --> 00:23:45.440
 when we

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:45.880
 weep

00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.880
 over a

00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:47.220
 cancer

00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:48.040
 diagnosis

00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:48.980
 so does

00:23:48.980 --> 00:23:49.360
 he

00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.399
 because it's

00:23:51.399 --> 00:23:52.179
 not the way

00:23:52.179 --> 00:23:52.619
 things are

00:23:52.619 --> 00:23:53.259
 supposed to

00:23:53.259 --> 00:23:53.659
 be

00:23:53.659 --> 00:23:57.259
 it's not

00:23:57.259 --> 00:23:57.559
 the way

00:23:57.559 --> 00:23:58.019
 he meant

00:23:58.019 --> 00:23:58.559
 it

00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:04.279
 don't stay

00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:04.639
 away

00:24:04.639 --> 00:24:05.339
 because you're

00:24:05.339 --> 00:24:05.819
 afraid of

00:24:05.819 --> 00:24:06.279
 saying the

00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:07.159
 wrong things

00:24:07.159 --> 00:24:09.079
 go and

00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:09.599
 say

00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:10.659
 nothing

00:24:10.659 --> 00:24:11.979
 at all

00:24:11.979 --> 00:24:14.339
 let your

00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:14.859
 tears

00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:15.539
 do

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:16.279
 the

00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:16.919
 speaking

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:20.820
 your

00:24:20.820 --> 00:24:21.140
 words

00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:21.460
 are not

00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:21.800
 needed

00:24:21.800 --> 00:24:23.460
 your

00:24:23.460 --> 00:24:23.840
 ears

00:24:23.840 --> 00:24:24.120
 and your

00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:24.460
 arms

00:24:24.460 --> 00:24:24.880
 are

00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:28.440
 love

00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:28.960
 calls us

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.140
 to

00:24:29.140 --> 00:24:29.500
 weep

00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:31.620
 and maybe

00:24:31.620 --> 00:24:32.000
 just

00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:32.440
 weep

00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:33.660
 love

00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:34.320
 calls us

00:24:34.320 --> 00:24:34.779
 to enter

00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:35.279
 in and

00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:35.820
 identify

00:24:35.820 --> 00:24:36.740
 so much

00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:37.580
 that we

00:24:37.580 --> 00:24:38.080
 are willing

00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:38.860
 to learn

00:24:38.860 --> 00:24:39.660
 just how

00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:40.200
 deeply

00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:40.779
 others

00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:41.580
 hurt

00:24:41.580 --> 00:24:43.920
 so much

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:44.340
 so that

00:24:44.340 --> 00:24:45.019
 we feel

00:24:45.019 --> 00:24:45.340
 it

00:24:45.339 --> 00:24:46.659
 as if

00:24:46.659 --> 00:24:46.919
 it's

00:24:46.919 --> 00:24:47.159
 our

00:24:47.159 --> 00:24:47.579
 own

00:24:47.579 --> 00:24:49.599
 and it's

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:50.000
 actually

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.419
 in the

00:24:50.419 --> 00:24:51.019
 sharing

00:24:51.019 --> 00:24:52.619
 of the

00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:53.079
 pain

00:24:53.079 --> 00:24:53.379
 when you

00:24:53.379 --> 00:24:53.599
 come

00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:54.079
 alongside

00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:54.599
 someone

00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:54.819
 you

00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:55.179
 share

00:24:55.179 --> 00:24:55.339
 it

00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:55.980
 that's

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.179
 where

00:24:56.179 --> 00:24:56.699
 comfort

00:24:56.699 --> 00:24:57.079
 really

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:57.459
 comes

00:24:57.459 --> 00:24:57.919
 from

00:24:57.919 --> 00:24:59.740
 because

00:24:59.740 --> 00:25:00.220
 somebody

00:25:00.220 --> 00:25:01.019
 knows

00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:02.279
 somebody's

00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:02.559
 willing

00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:03.079
 to be

00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:03.379
 there

00:25:03.379 --> 00:25:04.019
 somebody's

00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:04.279
 willing

00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:04.699
 just to

00:25:04.699 --> 00:25:04.899
 wrap

00:25:04.899 --> 00:25:05.099
 their

00:25:05.099 --> 00:25:05.419
 arms

00:25:05.419 --> 00:25:05.799
 around

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:06.139
 you

00:25:06.139 --> 00:25:07.459
 they're

00:25:07.459 --> 00:25:07.720
 willing

00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:08.019
 to

00:25:08.019 --> 00:25:08.519
 believe

00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:08.939
 the

00:25:08.939 --> 00:25:09.539
 promises

00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:09.879
 of

00:25:09.879 --> 00:25:10.259
 God

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:10.519
 that

00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:11.019
 you

00:25:11.019 --> 00:25:11.519
 are

00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:12.179
 struggling

00:25:12.179 --> 00:25:12.519
 to

00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:13.279
 believe

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:15.279
 but

00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:15.480
 they're

00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:15.599
 going

00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:15.700
 to

00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:15.859
 do

00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:16.000
 it

00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.339
 for

00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:16.720
 you

00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:19.279
 and

00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:19.399
 they're

00:25:19.399 --> 00:25:19.460
 going

00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:19.519
 to

00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:19.740
 hold

00:25:19.740 --> 00:25:19.899
 you

00:25:19.899 --> 00:25:20.279
 up

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:24.960
 that's

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:25.119
 what

00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:25.259
 it

00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:25.500
 means

00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:25.819
 to be

00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:26.099
 a living

00:25:26.099 --> 00:25:26.660
 sacrifice

00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:29.819
 when

00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.139
 we are

00:25:30.139 --> 00:25:30.839
 suffering

00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:31.779
 we just

00:25:31.779 --> 00:25:32.539
 need

00:25:32.539 --> 00:25:33.720
 somebody

00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:36.099
 to hold

00:25:36.099 --> 00:25:36.599
 us up

00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:38.279
 to the

00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:38.660
 one

00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:39.480
 who

00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:40.099
 can

00:25:40.099 --> 00:25:41.399
 make

00:25:41.399 --> 00:25:41.639
 all

00:25:41.639 --> 00:25:41.960
 things

00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:42.279
 new

00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:46.119
 so

00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:46.299
 how

00:25:46.299 --> 00:25:46.460
 are

00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:46.839
 we

00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:48.480
 supposed

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:48.720
 to

00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:48.859
 love

00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:49.099
 like

00:25:49.099 --> 00:25:49.500
 this

00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:52.339
 well

00:25:52.339 --> 00:25:52.980
 humanly

00:25:52.980 --> 00:25:54.519
 it

00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:54.660
 is

00:25:54.660 --> 00:25:55.220
 impossible

00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:57.500
 but

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:57.819
 Paul

00:25:57.819 --> 00:25:58.180
 gives

00:25:58.180 --> 00:25:58.379
 us

00:25:58.379 --> 00:25:58.619
 this

00:25:58.619 --> 00:25:59.039
 wonderful

00:25:59.039 --> 00:25:59.539
 little

00:25:59.539 --> 00:26:00.960
 phrase

00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:01.440
 way

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:01.759
 back

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:02.000
 up

00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:02.180
 in

00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:02.559
 Romans

00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:03.579
 12

00:26:03.579 --> 00:26:03.980
 verse

00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:04.460
 1

00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:05.960
 and

00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:06.160
 it's

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:06.379
 key

00:26:06.379 --> 00:26:06.599
 to

00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:06.799
 all

00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:06.940
 the

00:26:06.940 --> 00:26:07.279
 rest

00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.500
 he

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:09.759
 says

00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:10.220
 therefore

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:10.819
 by

00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:11.279
 the

00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:12.000
 mercies

00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:12.960
 of

00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:13.420
 God

00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:17.279
 by

00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:17.519
 the

00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:18.019
 mercies

00:26:18.019 --> 00:26:18.220
 of

00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:18.660
 God

00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:21.339
 that

00:26:21.339 --> 00:26:21.799
 is

00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:22.299
 how

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:23.319
 we

00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:23.960
 love

00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:25.160
 that

00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:25.539
 is

00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:26.000
 where

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.240
 the

00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:27.839
 ability

00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:28.400
 to step

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:29.000
 outside

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:29.380
 of

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:29.880
 ourselves

00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:30.380
 comes

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:30.839
 from

00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:32.220
 God

00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:32.339
 because

00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:32.799
 we

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.599
 have

00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:34.659
 experienced

00:26:34.659 --> 00:26:36.019
 mercy

00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:38.220
 from

00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:38.539
 the

00:26:38.539 --> 00:26:38.879
 one

00:26:38.879 --> 00:26:39.099
 who

00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:39.359
 made

00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:39.599
 all

00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.339
 things

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:41.959
 who

00:26:41.959 --> 00:26:42.439
 entered

00:26:42.439 --> 00:26:43.220
 into

00:26:43.220 --> 00:26:44.379
 our

00:26:44.379 --> 00:26:44.720
 own

00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:45.399
 lives

00:26:45.399 --> 00:26:46.319
 our

00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.179
 world

00:26:47.179 --> 00:26:50.980
 and

00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:51.240
 made

00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:51.459
 our

00:26:51.459 --> 00:26:51.839
 lives

00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:52.299
 as if

00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:53.179
 it was

00:26:53.179 --> 00:26:53.599
 his

00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:54.699
 God

00:26:54.699 --> 00:26:55.459
 himself

00:26:55.459 --> 00:26:56.319
 and this

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:56.579
 is what

00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:56.980
 we see

00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:57.740
 Paul talking

00:26:57.740 --> 00:26:58.220
 about all

00:26:58.220 --> 00:26:58.460
 back

00:26:58.460 --> 00:26:58.720
 through

00:26:58.720 --> 00:26:59.140
 Romans

00:26:59.140 --> 00:26:59.980
 God

00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:00.539
 himself

00:27:00.539 --> 00:27:01.240
 came

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:04.559
 he

00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.160
 entered

00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:05.799
 into

00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:06.259
 our

00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:07.019
 cursed

00:27:07.019 --> 00:27:07.920
 life

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:09.860
 in his

00:27:09.860 --> 00:27:10.600
 baptism

00:27:10.600 --> 00:27:11.339
 it was

00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:11.740
 pictured

00:27:11.740 --> 00:27:12.079
 of how

00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:12.600
 he took

00:27:12.600 --> 00:27:13.039
 that all

00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.700
 on himself

00:27:13.700 --> 00:27:15.900
 he

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:16.539
 suffered

00:27:16.539 --> 00:27:17.200
 our pain

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:17.620
 he took

00:27:17.620 --> 00:27:18.339
 upon himself

00:27:18.339 --> 00:27:18.600
 our

00:27:18.600 --> 00:27:19.440
 disease

00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.799
 all our

00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:21.559
 brokenness

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:22.420
 and when

00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:23.460
 we hurt

00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:23.940
 he

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:24.920
 wept

00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:29.440
 but he

00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:29.860
 did more

00:27:29.860 --> 00:27:30.539
 than that

00:27:30.539 --> 00:27:32.560
 he

00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:33.100
 identified

00:27:33.100 --> 00:27:33.800
 with us

00:27:33.800 --> 00:27:34.220
 so

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:34.920
 clearly

00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:35.620
 and deeply

00:27:35.620 --> 00:27:38.360
 that our

00:27:38.360 --> 00:27:38.900
 sin

00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:40.400
 our

00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:41.680
 death

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.160
 that we

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:44.519
 should have

00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:44.980
 died

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:47.400
 he made

00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:47.840
 his own

00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:54.360
 he died

00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:56.000
 for

00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:56.599
 us

00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:01.699
 look at

00:28:01.699 --> 00:28:01.859
 these

00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:02.139
 words

00:28:02.139 --> 00:28:02.359
 from

00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:02.779
 Romans

00:28:02.779 --> 00:28:03.419
 chapter

00:28:03.419 --> 00:28:03.799
 12

00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:04.479
 chapter

00:28:04.479 --> 00:28:04.899
 6

00:28:04.899 --> 00:28:05.219
 excuse

00:28:05.219 --> 00:28:05.539
 me

00:28:05.539 --> 00:28:07.799
 do you

00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:08.159
 not know

00:28:08.159 --> 00:28:08.500
 that all

00:28:08.500 --> 00:28:08.779
 of us

00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:08.979
 who have

00:28:08.979 --> 00:28:09.139
 been

00:28:09.139 --> 00:28:09.859
 baptized

00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:10.359
 into

00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:10.679
 Christ

00:28:10.679 --> 00:28:11.099
 Jesus

00:28:11.099 --> 00:28:11.399
 were

00:28:11.399 --> 00:28:11.799
 baptized

00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:12.240
 into

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 his

00:28:12.479 --> 00:28:12.899
 death

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 we

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 were

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 buried

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 therefore

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 with

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 him

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 by

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 baptism

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 into

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 death

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 in

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 order

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 that

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 just

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 as

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 Christ

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 was

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 raised

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 from

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 the

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 dead

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 by

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 the

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 glory

00:28:20.919 --> 00:28:21.099
 of

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 the

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 father

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 we

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 too

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 might

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 walk

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 in

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 newness

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 of

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 life

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 for

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 if

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 we

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 have

00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:26.059
 been

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 united

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 with

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 him

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 in

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 a

00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:27.639
 death

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 like

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.460
 his

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 we

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 shall

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 certainly

00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:31.559
 be

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 united

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 with

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 him

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 in

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 a

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 resurrection

00:28:33.899 --> 00:28:34.379
 like

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:34.740
 his

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 he

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.139
 came

00:28:36.139 --> 00:28:37.680
 died

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 but

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 there's

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 a flip

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 side

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 he

00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:43.539
 was

00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:44.200
 raised

00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:45.759
 into

00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:46.359
 newness

00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:46.539
 of

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:47.000
 life

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.500
 and

00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:47.879
 because

00:28:47.879 --> 00:28:48.139
 we

00:28:48.139 --> 00:28:48.279
 are

00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:48.740
 so

00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:49.259
 deeply

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:49.960
 identified

00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:50.599
 with

00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:50.960
 him

00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:51.519
 we

00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.100
 will

00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:52.620
 know

00:28:52.620 --> 00:28:53.140
 that

00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:53.680
 life

00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:53.900
 as

00:28:53.900 --> 00:28:54.180
 well

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:54.420
 that

00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:54.660
 is

00:28:54.660 --> 00:28:55.240
 free

00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:56.539
 from

00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:56.759
 the

00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:57.480
 brokenness

00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:57.720
 from

00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:57.920
 the

00:28:57.920 --> 00:28:58.500
 curse

00:28:58.500 --> 00:28:59.160
 from

00:28:59.160 --> 00:28:59.340
 the

00:28:59.340 --> 00:29:00.039
 disease

00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:00.380
 the

00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:00.960
 hardship

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:01.360
 and

00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:01.519
 the

00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:01.960
 toil

00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:02.259
 it

00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:02.460
 is

00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:03.220
 free

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:04.880
 made

00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:05.720
 new

00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:07.460
 in

00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:08.059
 Christ

00:29:08.059 --> 00:29:12.059
 that's

00:29:12.059 --> 00:29:12.400
 what the

00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:12.799
 mercies

00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:13.220
 of God

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:13.640
 gives

00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:14.039
 us

00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:14.680
 we

00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:15.160
 remember

00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:15.860
 back

00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:16.699
 to

00:29:16.699 --> 00:29:16.979
 what

00:29:16.979 --> 00:29:17.219
 he's

00:29:17.219 --> 00:29:17.659
 done

00:29:17.659 --> 00:29:18.519
 that

00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:19.000
 because

00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:19.179
 he

00:29:19.179 --> 00:29:19.359
 was

00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:19.759
 raised

00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:19.959
 we

00:29:19.959 --> 00:29:20.139
 can

00:29:20.139 --> 00:29:20.519
 now

00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:21.099
 look

00:29:21.099 --> 00:29:21.859
 forward

00:29:21.859 --> 00:29:23.099
 to

00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:23.359
 what

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:23.599
 is

00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:24.179
 coming

00:29:24.179 --> 00:29:26.399
 he

00:29:26.399 --> 00:29:26.759
 is

00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:27.339
 making

00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:27.919
 all

00:29:27.919 --> 00:29:28.719
 things

00:29:28.719 --> 00:29:29.479
 new

00:29:29.479 --> 00:29:31.539
 and so

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:31.959
 in our

00:29:31.959 --> 00:29:32.799
 rejoicing

00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:33.839
 and in

00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.059
 our

00:29:34.059 --> 00:29:34.759
 weeping

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:36.479
 our

00:29:36.479 --> 00:29:37.059
 calling

00:29:37.059 --> 00:29:37.500
 is to

00:29:37.500 --> 00:29:37.879
 enter

00:29:37.879 --> 00:29:38.419
 into

00:29:38.419 --> 00:29:39.219
 the

00:29:39.219 --> 00:29:39.619
 lives

00:29:39.619 --> 00:29:39.919
 of our

00:29:39.919 --> 00:29:40.219
 brothers

00:29:40.219 --> 00:29:40.500
 and

00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:40.899
 sisters

00:29:40.899 --> 00:29:44.099
 that we

00:29:44.099 --> 00:29:44.740
 never let

00:29:44.740 --> 00:29:45.539
 them forget

00:29:45.539 --> 00:29:47.039
 the

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:47.539
 mercies

00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:48.019
 of God

00:29:48.019 --> 00:29:48.359
 we have

00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:48.960
 already

00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:49.599
 seen

00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.119
 and the

00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:52.559
 ones that

00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:52.920
 are still

00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.399
 to come

00:29:53.399 --> 00:29:56.220
 so that

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:56.940
 as we

00:29:56.940 --> 00:29:57.639
 deal with

00:29:57.639 --> 00:29:58.220
 the normal

00:29:58.220 --> 00:29:58.819
 life

00:29:58.819 --> 00:30:01.059
 we can

00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:01.460
 do so

00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:01.940
 with hope

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:05.180
 let's

00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:05.440
 pray

00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.480
 father

00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:08.940
 help us

00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:09.879
 to remember

00:30:09.879 --> 00:30:14.299
 we do

00:30:14.299 --> 00:30:14.700
 struggle

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:15.240
 we

00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:15.620
 hurt

00:30:15.620 --> 00:30:17.019
 we

00:30:17.019 --> 00:30:17.160
 don't

00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:17.480
 like to

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:17.680
 think

00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:17.940
 about

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:18.340
 it

00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:22.920
 father

00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:24.180
 help us

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:24.600
 to remember

00:30:24.600 --> 00:30:25.140
 Jesus

00:30:25.140 --> 00:30:27.920
 help us

00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:28.340
 to remember

00:30:28.340 --> 00:30:29.200
 his mercy

00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.900
 what he's

00:30:30.900 --> 00:30:31.180
 already

00:30:31.180 --> 00:30:31.740
 accomplished

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:34.819
 and help

00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:35.140
 us to

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:35.519
 remember

00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:36.920
 what he's

00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:37.360
 going to

00:30:37.360 --> 00:30:37.620
 do

00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:39.699
 and give

00:30:39.699 --> 00:30:40.159
 us hope

00:30:40.159 --> 00:30:41.919
 and father

00:30:41.919 --> 00:30:42.500
 then use

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:42.979
 us

00:30:42.979 --> 00:30:44.639
 in the

00:30:44.639 --> 00:30:45.079
 lives of

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:45.639
 each other

00:30:45.639 --> 00:30:46.500
 that we

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:47.500
 might give

00:30:47.500 --> 00:30:48.139
 hope

00:30:48.139 --> 00:30:50.099
 that we

00:30:50.099 --> 00:30:50.379
 might

00:30:50.379 --> 00:30:51.219
 encourage

00:30:51.219 --> 00:30:51.719
 hope

00:30:51.719 --> 00:30:53.679
 that we

00:30:53.679 --> 00:30:54.439
 might all

00:30:54.439 --> 00:30:55.519
 together

00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.079
 stand firm

00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:58.779
 in hope

00:30:58.779 --> 00:31:01.700
 for more

00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:02.240
 information

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.019
 visit us

00:31:03.019 --> 00:31:03.519
 online

00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:03.920
 at

00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:04.819
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00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:05.680
 for more

00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:06.259
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00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:06.799
 visit us

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00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:07.660
 at

00:31:07.660 --> 00:31:08.839
 southwood.org

00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:10.500
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00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:10.559
 becomes

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:10.980
 one

00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:11.500
 one

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:12.220
 glaub

00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:13.159
 that we

00:31:13.159 --> 00:31:13.779
 should

00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.000
 ask

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:14.899
 Lou

00:31:14.899 --> 00:31:15.119
 that we

00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:15.839
 joke

00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:17.039
 well

00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:18.779
 that I

00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:18.799
 know

00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:19.279
 that

00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:19.480
 you

00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:19.519
 that

00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:20.159
 there

00:31:20.159 --> 00:31:20.379
 are